Wozzeck

Archive Listings for Wozzeck

T02043852674 (WNO09) Sung in German with English surtitles. Runnint time approx. 95 mins with no interval.Company Welsh National Opera. Company Komische Oper Berlin. Conductor Lothar Koenigs. Director Richard Jones. Design Paul Steinberg. Costume Buki Shiff. Lighting Franck Evin. Director Linda Dobell (movement). Performer Christopher Purves (Wozzeck). Performer Wioletta Chodowicz (Marie). Performer Graham Clark (Captain). Performer Clive Bayley (Doctor). Performer Hubert Francis (Drum Major). Performer Ashley Catling (Andres).
24 Nov 09	Mayflower Theatre, Southampton :: V774 listing details L1848319336
12 Nov 09	Hippodrome, Bristol :: V856 listing details L736701841
5 Nov 09	New Theatre (formerly known as Apollo Theatre), Oxford :: V802 listing details L0497188306
15 Oct 09	Venue Cymru (formally - North Wales Theatre), Llandudno :: V848 listing details L821772537
27 Sep 09 to 2 Oct 09	Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff :: V1984858935 listing details L01718414610
T01771436014 (ROYALOP05) Revival. Supported (2002) by The Friends of Covent Garden.Producer Royal Opera House. Conductor Daniel Harding. Director Keith Warner. Design Stefanos Lazaridis. Costume Marie-Jeanne Lecca. Lighting Rick Fisher. Performer Johan Reuter (Wozzeck). Performer Susan Bullock (Marie). Performer Jorma Silvasti (Drum Major). Performer Kurt Rydl (Doctor). Performer Graham Clark (Captain). Performer Peter Bronder (Andres). Performer Claire Powell (Margret). Performer Quentin Hayes (First Apprentice). Performer Jeremy White (Second Apprentice). Performer Francis Egerton (Half-wit).
27 Feb 06 to 13 Mar 06	Royal Opera House, West End :: V377 listing details L01065149451
T13912088 (WNO05) Sung in German with surtitles. Running time 1 hr 45 mins.Company Welsh National Opera. Company Komische Oper. Conductor Vladimir Jurowski (except 22 March and 7 April). Director Richard Jones. Design Paul Steinberg. Costume Buki Shiff. Lighting Franck Evin. Performer Christopher Purves (Wozzeck). Performer Peter Hoare (Captain). Performer Gun-Brit Barkmin (Marie). Performer Peter Svensson (Drum-Major). Performer Clive Bayley (Doctor). Performer Matthew Beall (Andres).
14 Apr 05	Hippodrome, Bristol :: V856 listing details L01259187866
7 Apr 05	Liverpool Empire Theatre, Liverpool :: V534 listing details L0237788950
1 Apr 05	Birmingham Hippodrome, Birmingham :: V145 listing details L1775455882
22 Mar 05 to 26 Mar 05	Mayflower Theatre, Southampton :: V774 listing details L1974299991
19 Feb 05 to 12 Mar 05	Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff :: V1984858935 listing details L1077179859
T0941142753 (ROH02) New Production. Supported (2002) by The Friends in Covent Garden. The production will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3. Sung in German with English surtitles. Running time 1 hour 38 minutes.Company Royal Opera. Director Keith Warner. Design Stephanos Lazaridis. Costume Marie Jeanne Lecca. Lighting Rick Fisher. Conductor Antonio Pappano. Performer Matthias Goerne (Wozzeck). Performer Katarina Dalayman (Marie). Performer Kim Begley (Drum Major). Performer Graham Clark (Captain). Performer Alasdair Elliott (Andres). Performer Claire Powell (Margret). Performer Eric Halfverson (Doctor). Performer Quentin Hayes (1st apprentice). Performer Jeremy White (2nd apprentice). Performer Francis Egerton (Idiot).
15 Oct 02 to 31 Oct 02	Royal Opera House, West End :: V377 listing details L02069355946
T01757566206 (ON96) Company Opera North.
15 Nov 96	Hull New Theatre, Hull :: V934 listing details L0431965223
1 Nov 96	Theatre Royal, Nottingham :: V458 listing details L1035986539
19 Sep 96 to 26 Oct 96	Grand Theatre and Opera House, Leeds :: V975 listing details L1697937970
Other listings
19 Mar 05	Milton Keynes Theatre, Milton Keynes :: V754 listing details L301974438

Details

Opera or Operetta :: Wozzeck is shaving the Captain, who tells him to go slower and makes fun of him, particularly over the matter of his illegitimate child. Eventually Wozzeck is roused into an indignant answer. The second scene finds Wozzeck and Andres cutting sticks in an inhospitable open field, where Wozzeck seems to fear the noises he hears. Marie, from her house, watches the band march past and is saluted by the Drum Major, who seems to show an interest in her. Wozzeck returns and tries to tell Marie of his fears, to her alarm. The Doctor diagnoses a fixed idea as the source of Wozzeck s difficulties, while the fifth scene returns to Marie, outside her house, where she is seduced by the Drum Major. Marie lulls her child to sleep again and Wozzeck comes in, suspicious of the earrings that the Drum Major has given, which she claims to have found in the street. In the street the Captain tells the Doctor to go slower and the Doctor diagnoses a fatal illness in the Captain. Both mock Wozzeck, when they meet him, laughing at Marie's relationship with the Drum Major. Wozzeck rushes away. He now threatens Marie, who leaves him to himself. In a tavern garden Wozzeck watches Marie and the Drum Major. Others dance and celebrate, but Wozzeck, at the prompting of a Madman, sees only blood. In the guard-room Wozzeck fights with the boasting Drum Major, full of his conquest, and is knocked down. The third act opens in Marie's room, where she reads in the Bible of the woman taken in adultery. In the half-light of evening Marie and Wozzeck walk together along a forest path. He talks of fidelity and love and stabs her. In a tavern Wozzeck drinks to forget, his blood-stained hands noticed by Margret, Marie's neighbour. Wozzeck returns to the forest path, looking for his knife. Stumbling against Marie's body, he finally goes out of his mind, wading into the forest pool, where he drowns. The Doctor and the Captain pass by, unconcerned. The next morning, outside Marie's house, her child plays on his hobby-horse. Another child tells him what has happened, and they go together to see the woman's body. Wozzeck, apart from the relevance and power of its plot, with its associated moral and social connections, is an elaborate musical structure. Berg makes use of a number of traditional forms, incorporated in an over-all pattern of symphonic complexity. The second act starts with a sonata form, followed by a fantasia and fugue, leading to an important slow movement, a scherzo, with two trios and a rondo. The first and third acts are more loosely constructed, but still in a series of established forms. The musical idiom, apart from the forms used, is in part atonal, in part diatonic, with other scale patterns used. Vocally it includes passages of Sprechgesang (sung speech). A concert version of excerpts from the opera, made in 1924, includes parts of all three acts in orchestral form, while Marie's scene, as the band marches past, has an occasional dramatic place in concert programmes.

Author

Alban Berg