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Berlin State Opera. Wozzeck ( German pronunciation: [ˈvɔtsɛk]) is the first opera by the Austrian composer Alban Berg. Composed between 1914 and 1922, it premiered in 1925. It is based on the drama Woyzeck, which German playwright Georg Büchner left incomplete at his death.
May 19, 2017 · Grundheber · Behrens · RaffeinerLangridge · Zednik · HauglandSramek · MalyWiener SängerknabenWiener StaatsopernchorWiener PhilharmonikerClaudio AbbadoInt. Re...
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Wozzeck, opera in three acts by Austrian composer Alban Berg, who also wrote its German libretto, deriving the story from the unfinished play Woyzeck (the discrepancy in spelling was the result of a misreading of the manuscript) by Georg Büchner.
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Mar 11, 2022 · “Wozzeck” was the first opera that made me believe in opera as a viable art form. It is this huge musical expression of the lives of really disempowered people.
The dramatic fragment Woyzeck by Georg Büchner. The three extant plays of Georg Büchner (1813–1837) reveal a writer profoundly out of step with the style and interests of his day. Though he died just five years after the preeminent figure of German literature, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), Büchner’s works are miles away from ...
Jul 28, 2023 · Wozzeck is a 1925 opera by Alban Berg, based on a play by Georg Büchner, about a soldier's descent into madness and murder. The opera explores the themes of war, death, despair and human condition with a modernist musical language and a tragic plot.
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Overview. After wowing audiences with his astounding production of Lulu in 2015, South African artist William Kentridge now focuses his extraordinary visual imagination on Berg’s other operatic masterpiece, set in an apocalyptic pre–World War I environment.
