Roles
| Role | Voice type | Zurich Opera premiere, 2 act version, 2 June 1937 (Conductor: Robert Denzler) |
Paris Opéra premiere, 3 act version, 24 February 1979 (Conductor: Pierre Boulez) |
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| Lulu | soprano | Nuri Hadzic | Teresa Stratas | ||
| Countess Geschwitz | mezzo-soprano | Maria Bernhard | Yvonne Minton | ||
| A high-school boy ("Der Gymnasiast") | contralto | Erika Feichtinger | Hanna Schwarz | ||
| A theatrical dresser A groom |
contralto | Frida Kurz Erika Feichtinger |
Hanna Schwarz | ||
| The banker | bass | Walter Frank | Jules Bastin | ||
| The painter, Lulu's second husband | tenor | Paul Feher | Robert Tear | ||
| A negro | tenor | Paul Feher | Robert Tear | ||
| Dr Schön, editor-in-chief | baritone | Asger Stig | Franz Mazura | ||
| Alwa, Dr Schön's son, a composer | tenor | Peter Baxevanos | Kenneth Riegel | ||
| Schigolch, an old man | bass | Fritz Honisch | Toni Blankenheim | ||
| An animal tamer | bass | Albert Emmerich | Gerd Nienstedt | ||
| Rodrigo, an athlete | bass | Albert Emmerich | Gerd Nienstedt | ||
| The prince, a traveller in Africa / The manservant / The marquis |
tenor | Oscar Mörwald | Helmut Pampuch | ||
| The theatre manager | bass | Walter Frank | Jules Bastin | ||
| The professor A clown A stagehand |
silent | Le Nain Roberto | |||
| The police commissioner The doctor, Lulu's husband |
spoken | Toni Blankenheim | |||
| A fifteen-year-old girl | soubrette | Daniele Chlostawa | |||
| Her mother | contralto | Ursula Boese | |||
| A woman artist | mezzo-soprano | Anna Ringart | |||
| A journalist | baritone | Claude Meloni | |||
| A manservant | baritone | Peter Poschl | Pierre-Yves Le Maigat | ||
| Jack the Ripper | baritone | Franz Mazura | |||
| Pianist, stage manager, attendants of the prince, policemen, nurses, wardresses, dancers, party guests, servants, workers |
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