Wozzeck
- Andrew Clements
Extract
Opera in three acts by alban Berg to his own libretto, after georg Büchner ’s play Woyzeck; Berlin, Staatsoper, 14 December 1925.
*Sprechstimme roles
Berg began work on an operatic treatment of Büchner’s play in 1914, after he had attended its first Viennese performance at the Residenzebühne on 5 May. It had been given in Landau’s revision of K. E. Franzos’s ...
