The London Philharmonic under Edward Gardner combined with video art by Ilya Shagalov that was riveting and, in places, not for the squeamish ...

Before last night's still-shocking saga of a downtrodden soul began, Southbank Artistic Director Mark Ball came on to tell us ...

The Southbank's festival of reimagined orchestral music brings the LPO and film-maker Ilya Shagalov together in collaboration ...

This is recession Britain - another twist - and Tom Scutt's towering tenement-like cross-section of squalid rooms is an ugly reminder of that irrefutable fact. At the bottom of the tower block, the ...

Poor Wozzeck. The guy can't catch a break. Hopelessly alienated male protagonists driven to violence may be ten a penny in opera. But Wozzeck seems to have drawn the shortest straw of them all. Abused ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Alban Berg’s brutal classic, a tale of a lowly soldier’s degradation and death, continues to inspire artists. By David Allen Theodor Adorno had to ...

Bradley Smoak is a second-year member of the Ryan Opera Center, the Lyric Opera’s development program for talented young singers. He is singing the role of the First Apprentice in the current ...

Wozzeck is a simple soldier trying to survive in an unjust world. His captain exploits him, he is the subject of scientific experiments conducted by the doctor, and his lover betrays him. One of the ...

When Keith Warner’s production of Alban Berg’s Wozzeck opened in 2002, it wowed the crowds and won every award in the book. Over three years down the line, the production still packs the punches, ...

Alban Berg realized that he and his mentor Arnold Schonberg were in the process of revolutionizing music, and so, when he came to write “Wozzeck,” he clung steadfastly to the late 19th-century ...

Possibly you also have heard that “Wozzeck” is either a new form of opera or the precursor of one. There is no singing—or, at least, the principals have no tunes with which to enchant you. The ...