Organization

Festival d'Aix en Provence

Conductor

Simon Rattle

Stage director

Simon McBurney

Set designer

Miriam Buether

Costume designer

Christina Cunningham

Lighting designer

Paul Anderson

Video designer

Will Duke

Choreographer

Leah Hausman

Dramaturge

Gerard McBurney

Collaboration à la mise en scène

Sasha Milavic Davies

Singer

Baritone

Christian Gerhaher

Wozzeck

Soprano

Malin Byström

Marie

Tenor

Thomas Blondelle

Drum Major

Peter Hoare

Captain

Bass

Brindley Sherratt

Doctor

Contralto

Héloïse Mas

Margret

Matthieu Toulouse

First apprentice

Tomasz Kumiega

Second apprentice

Assistant to Music Direction

Levi Hammer

Costume Assistant

Louise Watts

Robert Lewis

Andres

The madman

Apprentices

Danila Frantou

A soldier

Child vocalist

Gabriele Cuggia

Marie's boy

Others

Chœur de Chambre Philharmonique Estonien

Orchestra

London Symphony Orchestra

Maîtrise des Bouches-du-Rhône

German

Aix-en-Provence

France

Grand Théâtre de Provence

Public

Private

English

French

Approved

Wozzeck Berg

ENTRETIEN AVEC LE METTEUR EN SCÈNE SIMON MCBURNEY

"The audience is struck by an act of continuity in violence, continuity in division and continuity in vision: with all that lies behind the dream, as if the pit of the mind had opened up." Pierre Jean Jouve and Michel Fano, Wozzeck d’Alban Berg (1964)

Wozzeck is a typical example of the poor humanity of modern times: a brave soldier, scapegoat of a whole social system, who kills his mistress out of jealousy and then commits suicide. The Romantic playwright Büchner painted this vivid portrait in the early days of industrialisation: a relentless movement of objectification of beings that culminates in the mass grave of the First World War – of which Berg's opera is, in its own way, the posttraumatic echo, as much as it prophesies the world to come. For his third time at the Festival, Simon McBurney captures Wozzeck’s last minute, the moment when he drowns, and makes it a spectacular externalisation of his tormented psyche, as well as a grotesque recollection of his obsessions. Sir Simon Rattle will conduct the London Symphony Orchestra and a first-rate cast; Christian Gerhaher brings all his Liedersänger skills
in a subtle and heart-rending incarnation of the title role as a myth of our time.

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Ensemble