Alban Berg: WOZZECK Trailer

Opera in three acts (15 scenes); Premiere at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on 5 Oct. 2018 Conductor: Donald Runnicles; Stage director: Ole Anders Tandberg; Set design: Erlend Birkeland; Costume design: Maria Geber; Light design: Ellen Ruge; Video: Robert Pflanz; Chorus master: Jeremy Bines; Childrens chorus: Christian Lindhorst; Dramaturge: Jörg Königsdorf With Johan Reuter, Thomas Blondelle, Matthew Newlin, Burkhard Ulrich, Seth Carico, Andrew Dickinson, Elena Zhidkova, Annika Schlicht, Tobias Kehrer, Philipp Jekal, chorus, childrens chorus and the orchestra of Deutsche Oper Berlin. 20th century opera began with WOZZECK. No other work was destined to be more influential in defining the development of musical theatre than Alban Bergs work, which set Büchners play to music and premiered in 1925. Berg does not narrate the tale of Wozzecks murder of his friend, Marie, and his subsequent suicide as a grand drama of emotions but rather depicts his characters through the k br, br,