Name: Wozzeck
Start: 1980-03-08T00:00:00.000Z
End: 1980-03-08T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Metropolitan Opera House

Organization

Conductor

James Levine

Singer

Soprano

Anja Silja

Marie

Tenor

Ragnar Ulfung

Captain

Richard Cassell

Drum Major

Baritone

José van Dam

Wozzeck

The Metropolitan Opera

Others

Metropolitan Opera Choir

Orchestra

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

German

New York City

United States

Metropolitan Opera House

From "James Levine: Celebrating 40 Years at the Met" CD Box Set James Levine’s affection for Berg’s searing masterpiece has given Met audiences many opportunities to experience this groundbreaking score. Here Levine conducts José van Dam in the title role, who gives a heartbreaking performance as the downtrodden, humiliated soldier. Anja Silja is Marie, the mother of Wozzeck’s child, who cannot resistant the cheap glamour of the handsome Drum Major (Richard Cassilly)—leading Wozzeck to finally give up his desperate struggle for existence.

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