A funny thing happened the other night at the Met when the curtain came down on William Kentridge's stunning new production of Alban Berg's cruel and devastating WOZZECK. The audience didn't rush from ...

When Keith Warner’s production of Alban Berg’s Wozzeck opened in 2002, it wowed the crowds and won every award in the book. Over three years down the line, the production still packs the punches, ...

Experience artist William Kentridge’s interpretation of Berg’s tragic opera set in an apocalyptic pre-World War I environment. Peter Mattei stars in the title role. Met music director Yannick ...

And since it's not too often that stagings of the opera actually address the issue of his profession there is an added immediacy. This is the here and now of a Britain effectively still caught up in a ...

The first time was the charm, even if that first time took decades to arrive. Late last year the Houston Symphony earned its first ever Grammy Award nomination for best opera recording with "Berg: ...

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 ...