Alban Berg's Wozzeck

Wozzeck - Simon Rattle conducts Alban Berg's searing masterpiece.

Sir Simon Rattle leads a concert performance of Alban Berg’s Wozzeck, featuring a stellar cast headed by Malin Byström and Christian Gerhaher.
Based on Georg Büchner’s dramatic fragment, the opera tells the story of the soldier Wozzeck, who is broken by the world around him. Berg’s music cuts sharply, longingly, and devastatingly into the ears of its listeners, with a gripping musical language woven from military rhythms and lyrical delicacy.
When the work premiered one hundred years ago this year, Alma Mahler, to whom Berg dedicated the opera, wrote: 'One trembled, as if before something unheard of.' Wozzeck challenges - and rewards - the heart, mind, and ears alike.

Presented by Georgia Mann with guest Emily MacGregor.

Alban Berg: Wozzeck, opera in three acts and 15 scenes
Based on Georg Büchner's 'Woyzeck'

Wozzeck.... Christian Gerhaher (baritone)
Marie... Malin Byström (soprano)
Drum Major.... Eric Cutler (tenor)
Doctor.... Brindley Sherratt (bass)
Captain / Fool.... Nicky Spence (tenor)
Andres.... Edgaras Montvidas (tenor)
Speaker/ First Apprentice.... HK Gruber (speaker)
Second Apprentice.... Ludwig Mittelhammer (baritone)

Bavarian Radio Chorus
Bavarian State Opera Children's Chorus
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)