Book your tickets for Alban Berg's Wozzeck at the Opera Bastille in Paris. Susanna Mälkki directs a formidable cast led by Johan Reuter and Eva-Maria Westbroek, in the visually stunning expressionist aesthetic of a new production by William Kentridge.
Alban Berg's social and humanist drama by Georg Büchner is transformed into music that is overwhelming in its tragic grandeur and depth of compassion. Building on a rigorous and refined architecture, the composer develops a musical language of great expressive power, whose dissonance admirably translates the mental chaos in which the character of Wozzeck is plunged. Susanna Mälkki directs a formidable cast led by Johan Reuter and Eva-Maria Westbroek, in the visually stunning expressionist aesthetic of a new production by William Kentridge.
Opera in three acts
After Georg Büchner, Woyzeck
Libretto:
Alban Berg
Music:
Alban Berg - (1885-1935)
Conductor:
Susanna Mälkki
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
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