Wozzeck [videorecording] : opera in 3 acts and 15 scenes / an ORF/ZDF/RM Arts/Channel Four co-production with the Vienna State Opera & Teletheater ; [music] by Alban Berg after Georg Büchner [librettist]

The story encompasses the gruesome detail, horror, passion, and torment that characterized works of the German Expressionist movement. Wozzeck is an impoverished soldier driven insane by his manipulative superiors and his mistress' infidelity. In a jealous rage, he stabs her, then drowns when h...

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Corporate Authors:	Österreichischer Rundfunk, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, RM Arts (Firm), Arthaus Musik (Firm), Channel Four (Great Britain), Wiener Staatsoper (Performer), Reiner Moritz Associates, Image Entertainment (Firm), Kultur International Films
Other Authors:	Büchner, Georg, 1813-1837, Dresen, Adolf (Producer), Neuspiel, Ernst, Large, Brian (Director), Grundheber, Franz (Performer), Behrens, Hildegard (Performer), Raffeiner, Walter (Performer), Langridge, Philip, 1939-2010 (Performer), Zednik, Heinz (Performer), Haugland, Aage, 1944-2000 (Performer), Gonda, Anna, 1950- (Performer), Abbado, Claudio (Conductor), Berg, Alban, 1885-1935
Format:	Video DVD
Language:	German English
Published:	West Long Branch, NJ : Kultur, 2009.
Subjects:	Operas. Filmed performances.