Title: Alban Berg: "Wozzeck"
Original title: Alban Berg: Wozzeck
Release year: 2015
Genre: opera
Director: Andreas Homoki, Michael Beyer
Conductor: Fabio Luisi
Cast: Christian Gerhaher (Wozzeck), Brandon Jovanovich (Tambourmajor), Mauro Peter (Andres), Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke (Hauptmann), Lars Woldt (Doktor), Pavel Daniluk (1. Handwerksbursch), Cheyne Davidson (2. Handwerksbursch) , Martin Zysset (Der Narr), Gun-Brit Barkmin (Marie), Irène Friedli (Margret), Zürich Opera House Chorus, Philharmonia Zürich

Description:

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 is based on the first opera, is an unfinished study of social injustice and human suffering. But it is also a grotesque piece that thrives on the exaggeration - and in which only a fine line separates the unfathomable from the ridiculous. Director, Andreas Homoki forgoes all realism.

His nightmarishly radical production is based on the puppet theater. Christian Gerhaher's role début as Wozzeck can only be described as sensational: his capacity for vocal and dramatic subtlety is simply breath-taking. At the rostrum of the Philharmonia Zurich, Fabio Luisi explores both the expressionistic and the more intimate aspects, reminiscent of chamber music, in Berg's seminal

Video Performance 2017 :: "This impressive performance of Berg's 'Wozzeck' from the Zurich Opera is a reference recording. The musical aspect is simply outstanding, with an incomparable Christian Gerhaher in the title role and charismatic conducting from Fabio Luisi. The remarkably detailed staging is no less inspiring, and the video recording is excellent, too. A production of terrific intensity and concentration. "ICMA jury statement

Issued: Germany | Accentus Music
Duration: 1:40:57