The first global television broadcast of Greek National Opera's production Wozzeck on the international channel of classical music and opera Mezzo on Sunday 4 October 2020 will be a milestone moment ...

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 ...

The Metropolitan Opera heads into its 18th week of free virtual offerings in the wake of the ongoing pandemic, which has kept the venue closed until at least December 31. The upcoming lineup for the ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — Three years ago, on a trip to Johannesburg, I had the chance to watch artist William Kentridge working on a new production of Alban Berg’s knifelike opera “Wozzeck.” With a troupe of South ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...