Wozzeck: Alban Berg - Vienna State Opera

An opera in three acts and fifteen scenes.

Claudio Abbado conducts the chorus and orchestra of the Vienna State Opera in a powerful recording of Alban Berg's influential opera Wozzeck. As one of the few stage works of the Expressionist period, it offers a fascinating illustration of the fashionable tendencies of the time. Berg's terrifyingly great portrayal about the soldier Wozzeck, who is tormented and mocked by his superiors until he loses reason, is made palpable in Peter Mussbach's highly stylized production, which heightens the emotional intensity of this searing work and becomes an agonizing lament over lost innocence.