Wozzeck at Vienna State Opera

The soldier Wozzeck has an illegitimate child with Marie. To give her money, he regularly shaves the captain, cuts mating for a major, and will provide a half-crazed doctor as an experimental object. Marie, the bleak life tired, succumbs to the seduction of the Tambourmajors, which gives her two earrings that however. As the drum major brags about his conquest, the affair talk quickly. The captain and the doctor torture Wozzeck with allusions to Marie's infidelity, which then makes it to the speech. It comes to the dispute, in which she opposed hurls him: "Dear a knife into the body as a hand on me!" When Wozzeck dance sees in the restaurant Marie with the drum major, jealousy teases him. A fool appears and announces in Wozzeck close it can smell blood. This is now determined to act. On a forest road near a pond, he stabs Marie. As you discovered blood on it in a Schenle, he crashes again at the crime scene back to throw the knife into the pond. This he drowns. Maries and Wozzeck boy remains as a lonely orphan.