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Wozzeck at Opéra national de Paris - Opéra Bastille

Dates: (4/24/2017 - 5/15/2017 )

Theatre:

Opéra national de Paris - Opéra Bastille


Place de la Bastille
Paris,Île-de-France 75012

Phone: +33 (0)1 71 25 24 23

Running Time: 1h45 no interval

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Alban Berg discovered Büchner’s Woyzeck in 1914. Highly impressed, he began work adapting the play with a view to writing an opera. The work had its premiere in Berlin in 1925 after a legendary number of rehearsals –137– and quickly earned its reputation as a masterpiece of 20th century music. Separated and fragmented, the scenes combine in a series of tableaux to tell the story of Wozzeck, an ordinary soldier whose only solace is the love of his companion Marie. However, the latter’s fidelity is not unfailing and Wozzeck is haunted by torment. His officers and comrades in arms do little to improve the situation. The omnipresent tension in this profoundly romantic work unifies the fifteen scenes with their complex tonalities alternating between Verist notes and the force of ritualised actions. The interplay of musical citations and the balance between tonality and atonality underline a disquietingly authentic portrait of humanity where drama attains the status of myth. The work entered the Paris Opera’s repertoire relatively late in 1963. Christoph Marthaler’s production provides an atmosphere of contemporaneity strongly accentuated by the choice of a single set, where the men’s despair is submerged in Berg’s dearly sought-after sobriety.

Cast and Creative team for Wozzeck at Opéra national de Paris - Opéra Bastille


Music
Alban Berg
Libretto
Alban Berg

After Georg Büchner, Woyzeck

In German

Conductor
Michael Schønwandt
Director
Christoph Marthaler
Co-stage director
Joachim Rathke

Wozzeck
Johannes Martin Kränzle
Tambour-Major
Štefan Margita
Andrès
Nicky Spence
Hauptmann
Stephan Rügamer
Doktor
Kurt Rydl
Erster Handwerksbursch
Mikhail Timoshenko
Zweiter Handwerksbursch
Birger Radde
Der Narr
Rodolphe Briand
Marie
Gun-Brit Barkmin
Margret
Eve-Maud Hubeaux
Ein Soldat
Fernando Velasquez

Set design
Anna Viebrock
Costume design
Anna Viebrock
Lighting design
Olaf Winter
Dramaturgy
Malte Ubenauf
Chorus master
José Luis Basso

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