Alban Berg’s “Wozzeck,” which premiered in the shadow of World War I, will break your heart with a score that captures the essence of opera. By Joshua Barone His skill in completing Alban Berg’s “Lulu ...

I was 14 and in hospital with an appendicitis that had turned into peritonitis. The BBC was broadcasting a piece of opera history - the first ever performance of Alban Berg's Lulu in its entirety. It ...

Deborah Warner pulls no punches in her brilliant, audacious production of one of the 20th century’s most important works for the stage, which is also impeccably sung and faultlessly conducted ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... At its best, opera should be a seamless, balanced fusion of music and theater. A quintessential example of such a blend can be found in the Santa Fe Opera’s ...

WITH two ground-breaking operas, the soldier drama “Wozzeck” and the modernist tragedy “Lulu”, to his name, Alban Berg can make serious claims to be the most important opera composer of the 20th ...

Begun in 1914 and premiered in 1925, Wozzeck has class struggle, poverty and mental health problems as its principal subjects. By Caroline Crampton When I was 12 years old, I made a devastating ...

One might be forgiven for thinking that stories about those marginalised in society – the outsiders – are something new, but this couldn’t be further from the truth. Büchner’s bleak play about a ...