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Thomas Adès champions the character of Countess Geschwitz in Berg's opera Lulu, the first explicitly gay character in opera.

Composed between 1929-1935, the German-language libretto was adapted by Alban Berg himself from Frank Wedekind's two Lulu plays.

Thomas Adès is a composer, pianist and conductor, whose operas include The Exterminating Angel, The Tempest and Powder Her Face.

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