Keenlyside jitters and stiffens as Wozzeck gets progressively consumed by imagined and real-life torments, while harnessing the strange lyricism of his vocal lines. Mattila, her voice full and ...

Alban Berg’s “Wozzeck,” which premiered in the shadow of World War I, will break your heart with a score that captures the essence of opera. Alban Berg’s “Wozzeck,” which premiered in the shadow of ...

In crowded Carnegie Hall last week, Manhattan music lovers heard the next best thing to a stage production of Wozzeck—a brilliant concert version of the whole opera by the New York ...

Manhattan’s Victorian, red-and-gilt Metropolitan Opera House was transformed one night last week into a nightmarish, shriekingly demented world of sight and sound. The occasion: the Met’s long overdue ...

Preliminaries looked unpromising, even worrying. On the big screen were photos of the main characters, definitely not the singers, including Wozzeck, not a soldier but a near-invisible worker on the ...

Possibly you also have heard that “Wozzeck” is either a new form of opera or the precursor of one. There is no singing—or, at least, the principals have no tunes with which to enchant you. The ...

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 ...