Wozzeck

Wozzeck

at Royal Opera House

Price from $ 27.00

Wozzeck by Alban Berg on Royal Opera House in London is a disturbing opera. Book your tickets to Wozzeck by Alban Berg on Royal Opera House in London here

Wozzeck, a poor soldier, tries to support his girlfriend Marie and their young son while battling mental illness. When the brutal Drum Major seduces Marie, Wozzeck is driven to violent action.

'Man is an abyss – you feel giddy when you look into it.' So declares Wozzeck in Alban Berg’s harrowing psychological drama.

The title character is a disturbed man who is used for experimentation, taunted for his poverty and inarticulacy, and finally, in despair, driven to murder the only person he loves. The opera is based on the incomplete play Woyzeck by Georg Büchner. It was given its premiere in 1925 in Berlin and was extremely successful.

Berg’s music is rapturous and terrifying. The score is richly varied, from the depiction of Wozzeck’s terrifying visions to Marie’s exquisitely gentle lullaby to her son, to the black comedy of the Doctor and the Captain’s music.

Berg also draws on folk song, giving a vivid picture of the working-class community in which the characters live. A white-tiled laboratory provides the claustrophobic setting for Keith Warner’s uncompromising staging. This production was his directorial debut at Covent Garden and won an Olivier Award for Best New Opera Production in 2003.

 

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Venue Information

Royal Opera House
Bow Street London

Show Information

Booking from
2013-11-12

Booking until
2013-11-15

Running Time:
1 hour 40 minutes

Directions


(3 mins) The Royal Opera House is off Covent Garden piazza, which is visible from the tube station exit. There is a revolving door entrance at the piazza.

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