Opera in three acts by Alban Berg
Advance ticket sales start: June 9, 2026
Libretto by Alban Berg based on the drama Woyzeck (1836)
by Georg Büchner in the edition by Karl Emil Franzos (1879)
In German with German and Polish surtitles
Wozzeck loves Marie, they have a child; she turns away from him. In the end, he kills her. It is a predictable killing, the result of a creeping process of losing support and stability: humiliation turns into jealousy, jealousy into rage, and this has fatal consequences.
Wozzeck's environment seems blind to these changes. The Captain gives him endless lectures on morality and mocks his ignorance. The Doctor uses him as a guinea pig for grotesque medical experiments. His friend Andres remains a passive observer, unable to intervene, to help Wozzeck in his distress, or to stabilize him.
In his opera Wozzeck, which premiered in Berlin in December 1925, Alban Berg paints a harrowing portrait of people at the bottom of society. Here, in particular, poverty, social dependence, psychological distress, narrow-minded moral concepts, and structural injustices form the breeding ground for violence. Swaying between bitter comedy and deepest tragedy, Berg transforms the fragmentary drama Woyzeck by Georg Büchner into a cohesive opera libretto. Its atonal music reveals psychological processes and unfolds an expressive power that, despite all its modernity, is immediately accessible.
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