Performers

Sir Simon Rattle Conductor

Christian Gerhaher Baritone (Wozzeck)
Malin Bystrom Soprano (Marie)
Eric Cutler tenor (drum major)
Brindley Sherratt Bass (Doctor)
Nicky Spence Tenor (Captain/Fool)
Edgaras Montvidas Tenor (Andres)
Rinat Shaham mezzo-soprano (Margret)
HK Gruber (First Craftsman)
Ludwig Mittelhammer Baritone (Second Craftsman)

Children's Choir of the Bavarian State Opera
Bavarian Radio Choir
Peter Dijkstra rehearsal
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

A special highlight awaits right at the start of the new season: Sir Simon Rattle in a concert performance of Alban Berg's Wozzeck , with a top-class cast of soloists. Based on Georg Büchner's dramatic fragment, the opera tells the story of the soldier Wozzeck, who is torn apart by the world. Berg's music cuts harshly, yearningly, and shatteringly into the ears of its listeners, with a gripping sound language, shot through with military rhythms and lyrical tenderness.

When the work premiered in Berlin on December 14, 1925, almost exactly 100 years ago, Alma Mahler (to whom Berg dedicated the opera) wrote: "One trembled as if before something unheard of." A striking masterpiece between atonality and emotion, which challenges – and rewards – the heart, mind, and ears.

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