
Overview
The soldier Wozzeck (Christian Gerhaher) flits through a world that he is unable to decipher. The doctor torments him with absurd medical experiments; the captain humiliates and ridicules him. And Wozzeck’s lover, Marie (Gun-Brit Barkmin), with whom he has a child, cuckolds him with the drum major. Wozzeck becomes a murderer, stabbing Marie to death. Georg Büchner’s drama fragment, on which Alban Berg based his first opera, is an unflinching case study of social injustice and human suffering. But it is also a grotesque piece that thrives on exaggeration – and in which only a fine line separates the unfathomable from the ridiculous. Accordingly, director Andreas Homoki forgoes all realism.
Production
Accentus Music · Opernhaus Zürich
Cast & Characters

Christian Gerhaher
Wozzeck

Brandon Jovanovich
Drum Major

Mauro Peter
Andres

Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke
Captain
Lars Woldt
Doctor
Gun-Brit Barkmin
Marie
Directors & Crew
Alban Berg
Writer
Michael Beyer
Director
Screenshots & Stills

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