Lulu is an opera by the Austrian composer Alban Berg (see Berg, Alban). Berg provided his own libretto (text), based on two dramas by the German actor and playwright Frank Wedekind (1864-1918). The work remained unfinished after Berg died in 1935. Nevertheless, the incomplete opera received its first performance at Zurich, Switzerland, on June 2, 1937. A completed version, orchestrated by the Austrian composer and violinist Friedrich Cerha, received its first performance at the Paris Opera on Feb. 24, 1979.