Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook Singers tended to fade into the background in a concert presentation of “Wozzeck” and some productions at the Metropolitan Opera. By ...

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 ...

Though each of Shin’s stunning images is perfectly composed, and so well lit by Adam Silverman, there’s less unity in Warner’s production than there was in, for example, Richard Jones’s Welsh National ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

With all of its melodrama and bellicosity, opera has always been a tough nut for avant-garde composers to crack. The very nature of opera demands a certain traditionalism that requires composers to ...

Philadelphia has stolen an operatic march on Manhattan. While the Metropolitan was lavishing its resources last week on the revival of Pietro Mascagni’s sleazy Iris (Soprano Elisabeth Rethberg, Tenor ...

Manhattan’s Victorian, red-and-gilt Metropolitan Opera House was transformed one night last week into a nightmarish, shriekingly demented world of sight and sound. The occasion: the Met’s long overdue ...