Alban Berg's "Wozzeck" may be opera's ultimate story about what to avoid as a society. In stage director Elkhanah Pulitzer's words, "the opera reveals how choices driven by war, greed, and disregard ...
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 ...
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 ...
NEW YORK — A harrowing new staging of Berg’s “Wozzeck.” The return of bass-baritone Bryn Terfel, after eight years, in Wagner’s “Der Fliegende Holländer.” And the company’s first regular Sunday ...