Wozzeck : opera in 3 acts and 15 scenes / an ORF/ZDF/RM Arts/Channel Four co-production with the Vienna State Opera & Teletheater ; [music] by Alban Berg ; after Georg Büchner.
Franz Grundheber (Wozzeck) ; Hildegard Behrens (Marie) ; Walter Raffeiner (drum major) ; Philip Langridge (Andreas) ; Heinz Zednik (captain) ; Aage Haugland (doctor) ; Anna Gonda (Margret) ; Alfred Sramek (1st apprentice) ; Alexander Maly (2nd apprentice) ; Peter Jelosits (Madura) ; Viktoria Lehner (Marie's boy) ; Elmar Breneis (soldier) ; Adolf Tomaschek (innkeeper) ; Chorus and Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera ; Claudio Abbado, conductor. Originally released on videocassette: c1987. Picture format: 4:3, fullscreen, NTSC.
Summary:
The story encompasses the gruesome detail, horror, passion, and torment that characterized works of the German Expressionist movement. Wozzeck is an impoverished soldier driven insane by his manipulative superiors and his mistress' infidelity. In a jealous rage, he stabs her, then drowns when he tries to wash the blood from his hands.
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