Wozzeck [videorecording] : opera in 3 acts and 15 scenes / an ORF/ZDF/RM Arts/Channel Four co-production with the Vienna State Opera & Teletheater ; [music] by Alban Berg after Georg Büchner [librettist]

Contributor Büchner, Georg, 1813-1837. Woyzeck.

Imprint:West Long Branch, NJ : Kultur, [2009]

Description1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Note:Originally produced in 1987.

Note:The story encompasses the gruesome detail, horror, passion, and torment that characterized works of the German Expressionist movement. Wozzeck is an impoverished soldier driven insane by his manipulative superiors and his mistress's infidelity. In a jealous rage, he stabs her, then drowns when he tries to wash the blood from his hands.

Note : PerformerFranz Grundheber (Wozzeck) ; Hildegard Behrens (Marie) ; Walter Raffeiner (Drum Major) ; Phillip Langridge (Andreas) ; Heinz Zednik (Captain) ; Aage Haugland (Doctor) ; Ana Gonda (Margaret) ; Chorus and Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera ; Claudio Abbado, conductor ; Helmuth Froschauer, chorus master.

System Details NotesDVD format.

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