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.
Genre: Music
Stars: Christian Gerhaher, Brandon Jovanovich, Mauro Peter, Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke, Lars Woldt, Gun-Brit Barkmin
Crew: Alban Berg (Music), Fabio Luisi (Conductor), Andreas Homoki (Stage Director), Alban Berg (Writer), Michael Beyer (Director)
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Language: Deutsch
Studio: Accentus Music, Opernhaus Zürich
Runtime: 101 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Jan 01, 2016
IMDb: 10
Keywords:opera
