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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The unfinished play Wozzeck, on which Alban Berg’s opera is based, was written in 1837 by Georg Büchner, a German medical student who died from typhus that same year at the age of 23. Berg conceived ...

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 ...

Alban Berg’s bleak opera “Wozzeck” might not seem suited to the holiday season. One of the least cheerful pieces in the repertory, it tells the story of an impoverished and increasingly delusional ...

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 ...