Opernhaus Zürich: Alban Berg - Wozzeck

Описание: Zurich Opera House, 2015
The soldier Wozzeck 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, 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.
His nightmarishly radical production is inspired by puppet theatre. Christian Gerhaher’s role début as Wozzeck can only be described as sensational: his capacity for vocal and dramatic subtlety is simply breath-taking. At the rostrum of the Philharmonia Zurich, Fabio Luisi explores both the expressionistic and the more intimate aspects, reminiscent of chamber music, in Berg’s seminal score.

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Opera in three acts (15 scenes) after Georg Büchner‘s «Woyzeck»
Music composed by Alban Berg
Fabio Luisi - Musical direction
Andreas Homoki - Staging
Michael Levine - Stage and costume design
Franck Evin - Light design
Jürg Hämmerli - Chorus master
Kathrin Brunne - Dramaturgy

Christian Gerhaher - Wozzeck
Brandon Jovanovich - Drum Major
Mauro Peter - Andres
Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke - Captain
Lars Wold - Doctor
Martin Zysset - The Fool
Gun-Brit Barkmin - Marie
Irène Friedl - Margret

Philharmonia Zürich
Chor der Oper Zürich
Statistenverein am Opernhaus Zürich

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