Wozzeck - Simon Rattle conducts Alban Berg's searing masterpiece.

The Houston Symphony's performance of Alban Berg's opera "Wozzeck" on Friday inevitably left a great deal to the imagination. There were no sets, only a table and chair and a few benches to give the ...

Like a grim, silent sentry, a monument to the victims of World War I looms upstage in Scottish director David McVicar’s stark and wrenching new production of Alban Berg’s “Wozzeck” at Lyric Opera of ...

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What is the sound of a man drowning? Near the end of Alban Berg’s “Wozzeck,” a 20th century masterpiece about the inevitable humiliation of army life, the protagonist, having slit the throat of his ...

Traveling to opera premieres, even if the opera house in question shows a seasoned hand at treating journalists exceedingly well, can be a bummer. For every traveled mile, expectations sneakily, ...

Matthias Goerne is stepping into the title role in tonight's opening night performance of Berg's Wozzeck, replacing Thomas Hampson, who has withdrawn due to illness. The Met approached Goerne, who was ...

And since it's not too often that stagings of the opera actually address the issue of his profession there is an added immediacy. This is the here and now of a Britain effectively still caught up in a ...

In this week’s OCS, Houston Public Media’s St.John Flynn introduces excerpts from an interview with former Houston Symphony Music Director Hans Graf and Shepherd School of Music composition professor ...

Performances in N.Y.C. The artist’s production of Berg’s brutal opera, updated to World War I, has come to the Metropolitan Opera. “Because it’s so fragmentary and so open,” William Kentridge said of ...