Wozzeck

Wozzeck - William Kentridge

• Conductor

  Susanna Mälkki

• Libretto

  Alban Berg

• Music

  Alban Berg
  (1885-1935)

• Director

  William Kentridge

• Co-director

  Luc De Wit

• Video

  Catherine Meyburgh

• Set design

  Sabine Theunissen

• Costume design

  Greta Goiris

• Lighting design

  Urs Schönebaum

• Video operator

  Kim Gunning

• Chorus master

  Ching-Lien Wu

An indispensable piece of modern music and one of the most emblematic of the 20th century, Wozzeck is a dazzling piece. Adapting Georg Büchner’s play, Alban Berg managed to capture the social and psychological violence roiling the soldier Franz Wozzeck, with a force and precision rarely attained in opera. Browbeaten by the captain, exploited by the doctor, deceived by Marie, Wozzeck leads us to reflect on the most tragic effects of madness both on a isolated individual and on a group. This expressionist world blends just as strikingly into the staging of William Kentridge, one of the major visual artists of the contemporary scene. His drawings and videos appear to us like projections of Wozzeck’s imagination, exposing the horror of the First World War.

Orchestre et Choeurs de l’Opéra national de Paris
Maîtrise des Hauts-de-Seine / Choeur d’enfants de l’Opéra national de Paris

Production Salzburger Festspiele, Metropolitan Opera, New York, Canadian Opera Company, Toronto, Opera australia

Wozzeck

Wozzeck - William Kentridge

• Wozzeck

  Johan Reuter

• Tambourmajor

  John Daszak

• Andres

  Tansel Akzeybek

• Hauptmann

  Gerhard Siegel

• Doktor

  Falk Struckmann

• Erster Handwerksbursch

  Mikhail Timoshenko

• Zweiter Handwerksbursch

  Tobias Westman

• Der Narr

  Heinz Göhrig

• Marie

  Eva‑Maria Westbroek

• Margret

  Marie-Andrée Bouchard-Lesieur

• Ein Soldat

  Vincent Morell

• Solo chœur

  Luca Sannai