Wozzeck, Opera Bastille, Paris: 7-30 March 2022

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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.

    Wozzeck

    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

  • Cast


    • 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

Ruth Waltz, Wozzeck 2017
Ruth Waltz, Wozzeck 2017

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