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.
Official Trailer
Budget
Not disclosed
Revenue
Not disclosed
Studios
Opernhaus Zürich1 review
Title
Alban Berg - Wozzeck
Released
Jan 1, 2016
Rated
Not rated
Original Audio
German
Runtime
1h 41m
Status
Released
Studios
Accentus Music, Opernhaus Zürich
