Wozzeck [videorecording] : an opera in three acts and fifteen scenes / by Alban Berg after the play by Georg Büchner; directed for TV by Joachim Hess.
"A historical studio production from the Hamburg State Opera, 1970"--Container. Includes trailer Conducted by Bruno Maderna ; performed by Toni Blankenheim, Richard Cassilly, Peter Haage, Gerhard Unger, Hans Sotin, Kurt Moll, Franz Grundheber, Kurt Marschner, Sena Jurinac, Elisabeth Steiner, Martina Schumacher, Georg Buchner, The Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra, Chorus of The Hamburg State Opera.
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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