LIVE opera comes to the Mwldan cinema screen this weekend.

On Saturday, November 21, from 5.30pm, Theatr Mwldan will broadcast William Kentridge’s new production of Berg’s Lulu live from the Met Opera in New York.

Conducting the performance is the Metropolitan Opera’s music director, James Levine, who conducted the Met première of Lulu in 1977 and subsequently returned to conduct 30 performances of the opera.

He is acclaimed for his mastery of this complex work that Berg left unfinished at his death in 1935; in 2010, The New York Times wrote of “the beauty, clarity, coherence and power that Mr. Levine has always extracted from this knotty score.”

Marlis Petersen reprises her interpretation of the femme fatale title role that she first performed in 2010, and for which the New York Times praised her as “charismatic.”

She is joined by Susan Graham as Countess Geschwitz and Daniel Brenna, Johan Reuter, Franz Grundheber and Paul Groves (a graduate of the Met’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program) in the roles of the men that fall for Lulu.

Kentridge’s art is characterised by intricate sketches as well as animations and typography, his work is often suffused with satire, especially of the politics of his native South Africa.

For this new production, Kentridge returns to the Met with the same team with whom he developed Shostakovich’s The Nose in 2010, which the Financial Times described as “opera of the absurd,” filled with “delirious cartoon images, animated projections, poster-art collages and English subtitle flashes, not to mention documentary flashes of Shostakovich at the keyboard.”

Co-produced by the Met in collaboration with Dutch National Opera and English National Opera, the first performance in Amsterdam was hailed by Musical America as “a stunning piece of visual art, a graphic reflection on Alban Berg’s masterpiece that will go far.”

Tickets for MET Opera screenings are £16 (£15) and are available now from Mwldan's box office.