Alban Berg - Wozzeck

Synopsis

The soldier Wozzeck (Christian Gerhaher) 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 (Gun-Brit Barkmin), 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.

Main Cast

Christian Gerhaher

Wozzeck

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Brandon Jovanovich

Drum Major

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Mauro Peter

Andres

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Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke

Captain

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Lars Woldt

Doctor

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Gun-Brit Barkmin

Marie

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Writing	Writer	Alban Berg
Sound	Music	Alban Berg
	Conductor	Fabio Luisi
Directing	Director	Michael Beyer
	Stage Director	Andreas Homoki
Department	Role	Name

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