LAKE PLACID – The Lake Placid Center for the Arts will present a screening of the Metropolitan Opera Live in HD’s “Lulu” at 12:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 21.

Tickets are $18 for adults and $12 for children, and are available by calling the LPCA Box Office at 518-523-2512 or online at www.lakeplacidarts.org.

One of the most important – not to mention notorious – stage works of the 20th century, “Lulu” is the drama of a young woman who sexually and emotionally dominates a wide range of willing victims, both male and female.

Herself a victim of society, she seems to embody all the frightening aspects of the human condition, a combination of primal instinct and distinctly modern amorality. Alban Berg’s score employs the twelve-tone technique pioneered by his teacher Arnold Schoenberg but in a keenly dramatic way that makes it accessible to all kinds of audiences.

Berg died before completing Act III of the opera, and Lulu was first performed as a fragment. Efforts to finish the score based on Berg’s notes were hindered by his widow and only realized, after her death, by the Austrian composer Friedrich Cerha, in 1977.

William Kentridge, who made his Met debut in 2010 with an innovative staging of Shostakovich’s “The Nose,” returns to the company with a new production of Lulu. Marlis Petersen, who has sung the role to great acclaim around the world, stars as the femme fatale.

Susan Graham, who has sung over 20 different roles at the Met, adds a new role to her company repertory as the Countess Geschwitz, one of Lulu’s most devoted admirers.