![Carole Wilson](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w92/80e9UtM4IhSLSrj5nPh3rSlZtxM.jpg)
Alban Berg's black, satirical opera is one of the masterpieces of the 20th Century. It charts the rise and fall of a femme fatale "created to make trouble", from life as a society hostess to prostitution and eventual bloody death at the hands of Jack the Ripper. Berg's score is intensely beautiful, and the rich characterisation brilliantly executed.