Keenlyside jitters and stiffens as Wozzeck gets progressively consumed by imagined and real-life torments, while harnessing the strange lyricism of his vocal lines. Mattila, her voice full and ...

This is recession Britain - another twist - and Tom Scutt's towering tenement-like cross-section of squalid rooms is an ugly reminder of that irrefutable fact. At the bottom of the tower block, the ...

When Alban Berg's opera "Wozzeck" was first seen in Berlin 100 years ago, it jolted its audience with a musical twist. Opera fans were used to modern works that abandoned traditional ideas of form and ...

Premiering in Berlin in 1925, Wozzeck has lost none of its dramatic power to affect audiences. Berg’s avant-garde opera, composed during and shortly after World War I, tells the tragic tale of an ...