Wozzeck
By: [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
Contributors: Barkmin, Gun-Brit, singer; Gerhaher, Christian, singer; Jovanovich, Brandon, singer; Peter, Mauro, 1987- singer; Ablinger-Sperrhacke, Wolfgang, singer; Woldt, Lars, 1972- singer; Luisi, Fabio, conductor; Homoki, Andreas, stage director; Beyer, Michael, television director; Chor der Oper Zürich; Philharmonia Zürich; ACCENTUS Music (Firm); Opernhaus Zürich; Bayerisches Fernsehen; ARTE Concert (Television station)
Published: 2016
Language: ger
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 100
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Operas
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 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.
Notes: Opera in 3 acts.

Title from disc label.

Includes booklet with interviews of Andreas Homoki, Fabio Luisi, and Alban Berg in German, English, and French.

Based on the drama Woyzeck by Georg Büchner.

Wide screen (1.85:1).

Director, Michael Beyer ; stage director, Andreas Homoki ; stage and costume designer, Michael Levine ; lighting designer, Franck Evin ; director of photography, Nyika Jancsó ; audio producer, Sebastian Braun ; editor, Steffen Herrmann.

Gun-Brit Barkmin ; Christian Gerhaher ; Brandon Jovanovich ; Mauro Peter ; Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke ; Lars Woldt ; Chor der Oper Zürich ; Philharmonia Zürich ; Fabio Luisi, conductor.

Recorded live 2015 September Opernhaus Zürich.

Sung in German; optional subtitles in Chinese, English, French, German & Korean.