Keenlyside jitters and stiffens as Wozzeck gets progressively consumed by imagined and real-life torments, while harnessing the strange lyricism of his vocal lines. Mattila, her voice full and ...

As he struggles with jealousy and poverty in this powerful tragedy, the psychologically disturbed title character endures ridicule from his... Opera Noir: Alban Berg's 'Wozzeck' Opera Noir: Alban Berg ...

In crowded Carnegie Hall last week, Manhattan music lovers heard the next best thing to a stage production of Wozzeck—a brilliant concert version of the whole opera by the New York ...

Premiering in Berlin in 1925, Wozzeck has lost none of its dramatic power to affect audiences. Berg’s avant-garde opera, composed during and shortly after World War I, tells the tragic tale of an ...

Preliminaries looked unpromising, even worrying. On the big screen were photos of the main characters, definitely not the singers, including Wozzeck, not a soldier but a near-invisible worker on the ...

When Alban Berg's opera "Wozzeck" was first seen in Berlin 100 years ago, it jolted its audience with a musical twist. Opera fans were used to modern works that abandoned traditional ideas of form and ...