Alban Berg - Wozzeck
2016•1h 41m•Released
Music
The soldier Wozzeck (Christian Gerhaher) flits through a world that he is unable to decipher. The doctor torments him with absurd medical experiments; the captain humiliates and ridicules him. And Wozzeck’s lover, Marie (Gun-Brit Barkmin), with whom he has a child, cuckolds him with the drum major. Wozzeck becomes a murderer, stabbing Marie to death. Georg Büchner’s drama fragment, on which Alban Berg based his first opera, is an unflinching case study of social injustice and human suffering. But it is also a grotesque piece that thrives on exaggeration – and in which only a fine line separates the unfathomable from the ridiculous. Accordingly, director Andreas Homoki forgoes all realism.
Director
Michael Beyer
Writer
Alban Berg
Languages
German
Studio
Accentus Music
Cast
Christian Gerhaher
Wozzeck
Brandon Jovanovich
Drum Major
Mauro Peter
Andres
Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke
Captain
Lars Woldt
Doctor
Gun-Brit Barkmin
Marie
Production
Company
Accentus Music
Company
Opernhaus Zürich
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