Name: TRAILER // WOZZECK
Uploaded: 2021-10-22T04:23:13.000Z
Description: TRAILER // WOZZECK

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Sänger

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Wozzeck

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Marie

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Tambourmajor

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Andres

Hauptmann

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Doktor

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Erster Handwerksbursch

Zweiter Handwerksbursch

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Der Narr

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Margret

Ein Soldat

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Francesco Angelico

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Regie

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Dramaturgie

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Florian Lutz

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Oper

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TRAILER // WOZZECK

Alban Berg's “Wozzeck” is a very special kind of total work of art. Not only because the clash between Georg Büchner's ingenious drama fragment from 1837 (which only appeared in 1879) and Berg's music from 1925 in a key work of modern music theater creates such bright sparks that this per se also illuminates the oppressive dark side of life today. In such a way that you actually look into the abyss, as Wozzeck, who believes he is on the trail of many things, says in his naive clairvoyance. Despite all the challenging modernity of this three-act play, it is this close connection between text and music in particular that provides the decisive tailwind for understanding “Wozzeck” as a piece of opera for the present. 

The battered person who fights against the circumstances, lets himself be made the guinea pig of an over-the-top doctor to take care of Marie and his illegitimate son, whom he cannot even look at. Wozzeck is a man who endures the captain's ridicule and yet has an inkling of the world because he knows (or better suspects and feels) that abyss than the two adversaries above him dream. On the other hand there is the unconditional lust for life and greed for life of Marie, who gets involved with the drum major, feels like a "bad person", but can't help it. When Wozzeck has the feeling that this part of his life is still missing, he finally becomes a murderer and suicide.

Wozzeck as a contemporary

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"Every person is an abyss, it makes you dizzy when you look down." Florian Lutz, the new director of the Staatstheater Kassel, and Francesco Angelico, general music director of the house, venture into this abyss in their first joint work as artistic directors of the music theater division. Alban Berg's three-act work from 1925, as the first full-length atonal opera, broke the audience's listening habits at the time - and was in no way inferior to the exuberant late romanticism in sheer dimensions. After the dramatic fragment  Woyzeckby Georg Büchner, Berg designed the panopticon of an abysmal world devouring man, in which the individual, struggling for a good life, perishes because of the circumstances. The battered title hero Wozzeck tirelessly plowed for the captain, wears himself out in medical experiments for the doctor - only to see his partner Marie flirting with the drum major. Driven into delusion by social conditions and his individual situation, he finally loses self-control and murders the mother of his child. Büchner's drama from Vormärz once sparked a debate about guilty responsibility - analogously, Florian Lutz reads the material as a parable on the driven individual of the 21st century between isolation, competition and the need to perform.

Wozzeck by Alban Berg, Ab #################### (2021/2021), Unter der Regie von Florian Lutz,, Dirigat Francesco Angelico

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