Organization

James Gaffigan

Singer

Baritone

Peter Mattei

Wozzeck

Soprano

Eva-Maria Westbroek

Marie

Tenor

Christopher Ventris

Drum Major

Tansel Akzeybek

Andres

Andreas Conrad

Captain

Joel Williams

The madman

Stage director

Andreas Kriegenburg

Conductor

Lighting designer

Stefan Bolliger

Costume designer

Andrea Schraad

Set designer

Harald W Thor

Choreographer

Zenta Haerter

Chorus master

Francesc Perales

Yuriy Hadzetskyy

Second apprentice

Bass

Franz Hawlata

Doctor

Patrick Guetti

First apprentice

Contralto

Alexandra Ionis

Margret

Jorge Franco

A soldier

Bayerische Staatsoper

Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia

New National Theatre Tokyo

Cor de la Generalitat Valenciana

Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana

Valencia

Spain

Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía

Sala Principal

Wozzeck Berg

Public

Approved

#LesArtsWozzeck de Alban Berg en Les Arts del 26 de maig al 5 de juny de 2022https://www.lesarts.com/wozzeck/

Alban Berg's opera, released in December 1925, tells a true story, that of the soldier Johann Christian Woyzeck. A socially and psychomedical drama that inspired Karl Georg Büchner to write, around 1836, what is considered the first expressionist tragedy in the German language, despite being left unfinished and without a clear order in the scenes. Of these materials, Alban Berg took fifteen parts and organized a personal dramaturgy structured in three acts with five scenes each. Wozzeck is a one-man tragedy with one victim and several executioners, elevated to the paradigm of a poor and exploited proletarian class, in which material deprivations are directly related to their moral miseries.
Alban Berg's Wozzeck is the culmination of the lyrical season, with an exceptional artistic display that celebrates the arrival in Valencia of this masterpiece of the operatic genre. A cast of eleven singers, numerous figurations, choir, choir, large orchestra and up to three different groups of musicians on stage are needed to perform the fifteen scenes that narrate the process of destruction of the protagonist. The complicated musical and theatrical challenge will be taken on by the conductor James Gaffigan from the orchestra and the German stage director Andreas Kriegenburg in the production that premiered in 2008 at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich with a remarkable and praiseworthy reception, since then considered as one of Wozzeck's reference stagingsin the 21st century. Visually impressive and full of symbolism, it crudely portrays the true reality of man, his poverty, misunderstanding and the exploitation he suffers. Swedish baritone Peter Mattei, making his debut in The Arts, tackles Wozzeck's complex role for the second time after his acclaimed performance at the New York Metropolitan. He will be joined by Dutch soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek -remembered by his Sieglinde with Plácido Domingo in Les Arts- and tenor Christopher Ventris, star of the Parsifal performances conducted by Lorin Maazel in 2008.

English

Wozzeck by Alban Berg, From (2022/2022), Directed by Andreas Kriegenburg,, Conductor James Gaffigan

Credits (Cast & Crew)