Bibliograph

Wozzeck, [music and libretto by] Alban Berg ; nach Georg Büchners "Woyzeck" ; a production of Accentus Music, in coproduction with Opernhaus Zürich, in cooperation with BR Bayerisches Fernsehen and Arte Concert

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Label

Wozzeck, [music and libretto by] Alban Berg ; nach Georg Büchners "Woyzeck" ; a production of Accentus Music, in coproduction with Opernhaus Zürich, in cooperation with BR Bayerisches Fernsehen and Arte Concert

Language

ger

Characteristic

videorecording

Main title

Wozzeck

Medium

videorecording

Oclc number

962421794

Responsibility statement

[music and libretto by] Alban Berg ; nach Georg Büchners "Woyzeck" ; a production of Accentus Music, in coproduction with Opernhaus Zürich, in cooperation with BR Bayerisches Fernsehen and Arte Concert

Runtime

141

Summary

"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."--Publisher's web site

Technique

live action

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