Opera in three acts (15 scenes); Premiere at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on 5 Oct. 2018
Conductor: Donald Runnicles; Stage director: Ole Anders Tandberg; Set design: Erlend Birkeland; Costume design: Maria Geber; Light design: Ellen Ruge; Video: Robert Pflanz; Chorus master: Jeremy Bines; Children’s chorus: Christian Lindhorst; Dramaturge: Jörg Königsdorf
With Johan Reuter, Thomas Blondelle, Matthew Newlin, Burkhard Ulrich, Seth Carico, Andrew Dickinson, Elena Zhidkova, Annika Schlicht, Tobias Kehrer, Philipp Jekal, chorus, children’s chorus and the orchestra of Deutsche Oper Berlin.
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20th century opera began with WOZZECK. No other work was destined to be more influential in defining the development of musical theatre than Alban Berg’s work, which set Büchner’s play to music and premiered in 1925. Berg does not narrate the tale of Wozzeck’s murder of his friend, Marie, and his subsequent suicide as a grand drama of emotions but rather depicts his characters through the kaleidoscope of an alienating musical language. The story centres on a maltreated being whose collected deeds are purely a reflection of the treatment to which he is subjected on a daily basis. As such, Berg’s Wozzeck is not so much culpable as sick, a man driven mad by wretchedness and humiliation.
For the new production the opera house secured the services of one of the highest-profile Scandinavian directors working today, the Norwegian Ole Anders Tandberg, who has already staged Shostakovich’s LADY MACBETH OF THE MTSENSK DISTRICT and Bizet’s CARMEN at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. The title role is taken by the charismatic Danish baritone Johan Reuter, whose performances in the Bismarckstraße have included central characters such as Verdi’s Nabucco and Strauss’s Barak in THE WOMAN WITHOUT A SHADOW. [ Ссылка ]
Video by Chris and the FATSOX [www.fatsox.de]
