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	Wozzeck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wozzeck is based on the drama Woyzeck left incomplete by the German playwright Georg Büchner at his death.
		Wozzeck is clearly associated with two motifs, one often heard as he rushes on or off stage, the other more languidly expresses his misery and helplessness in the face of the pressures he experiences.
		Wozzeck protests that it is difficult to be virtuous when he is poor, but entreats the Captain to remember the lesson from the gospel, ""Laßet die Kleinen zu mir kommen!"" ("Suffer the little children to come unto me," Mark 10:14).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wozzeck (1857 words)

	The Barber of Seville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Wozzeck is the story of a Common Man, who’s neurotic tendencies and untrained senses are beset by problems not entirely of his own making and by the machinations and maneuvers of his fellow men and women.
		Wozzeck and his friend Andres are cutting sticks at sundown but Wozzeck lets his imagination run riot, perceiving intrigues of the Freemasons and somehow convinced that the world is on fire when the setting sun colors the horizon red.
		Wozzeck is suspicious when she says she found the earrings; he never had the luck to find things like that in pairs.
	www.sdopera.com /season/wozzeck_synopsis.html (1142 words)

	Wozzeck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Wozzeck is shaving the Captain, who tells him to go slower and makes fun of him, particularly over the matter of his illegitimate child.
		The Doctor diagnoses a fixed idea as the source of Wozzeck’s difficulties, while the fifth scene returns to Marie, outside her house, where she is seduced by the Drum Major.
		Wozzeck, apart from the relevance and power of its plot, with its associated moral and social connections, is an elaborate musical structure.
	www.naxos.com /NewDesign/fintro.files/bintro.files/operas/Wozzeck.htm (528 words)

	Wozzeck: Synopsis
		Wozzeck goes on to describe the hardship he and his kind face and how it is easy for those who are better off financially to criticize the poor on moral grounds.
		Wozzeck: "I've never found anything like that, two at a time." He then comments on the child, on how he sweats even when he sleeps: this is the predicament of the poor, who must forever work under the sun.
		Wozzeck describes what he is perceiving: recollections of the dancing at the tavern, a voice, and a knife flashing before his eyes.
	www.geocities.com /al6an6erg/wsynopsis.html (2009 words)

	Berg, Wozzeck: soloists, Royal Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conducted by Daniel Harding. 2.3.2006. (JPr) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		So it is to her that Wozzeck is dedicated, and Alma underwrote Berg's printing of the score of this opera by Universal Edition.
		In successive displays there was a model of a town that eventually is consumed by fire, some toadstools and mushrooms in a second, foetuses in medical specimen jars in another and the final one is just full of water and plays a vital part in the denouement to the opera.
		Wozzeck's humiliation is clearly shown; his descent into madness through being bullied and cuckolded is vividly portrayed.
	www.musicweb-international.com /SandH/2006/Jan-Jun06/wozzeck0203.htm (1104 words)

	RoyalOperaHouse - 2004/5 Synopses - Opera & Ballet Synopses
		Wozzeck, a poor soldier, is forced to submit to the sadistic and humiliating demands of his superior officers in order to earn enough money to feed Marie, his mistress, and their illegitimate child.
		Wozzeck is shaving the Captain who begs him to take more time about it, expressing his fear of the idea of eternity and his anxiety as to what he will do with the time which Wozzeck is saving him.
		Wozzeck replies that the Lord, who said 'Suffer little children to come unto me', will not reject the child because of his illegitimacy and that it is easy to have a moral sense when one has money.
	info.royaloperahouse.org /Synopses/index.cfm?ccs=467&cs=667 (957 words)

	Wozzeck @ The Royal Opera House : opera review
		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.
		She has a child by Wozzeck, born out of wedlock, and in this production the little boy is about eight years old and present on stage throughout as an observer of the action.
		In both the play and Berg's opera, Wozzeck is a soldier of lowly rank and intelligence who is forced to submit to the sadistic and humiliating actions of his superiors.
	www.musicomh.com /opera/wozzeck.htm (709 words)

	Wozzeck
		There is no attempt in Wozzeck, as there is in Britten's Peter Grimes for example, to depict the title figure as a misfit in an otherwise 'normal' society in which people are going about their everyday business and leading their recognizably ordinary lives.
		The picture with which Berg presents us is that of a society in which the underprivileged are at the mercy of an unfeeling, selfish and sadistic ruling class, a class that keeps the less fortunate in their place through its financial domination and its appeals to vacuous moral ideals.
		When Wozzeck describes the weather as windy, Berg uses a rapid planing of 6-3 chords rushing like the wind through the flutes (m70), and when the Captain says the wind makes him feel like a "mouse", his voice ascends to his highest A and sustains it with a trill, making his voice squeal (m78).
	solomonsmusic.net /wozzeck.htm (3672 words)

	Wozzeck - Alban Berg's Masterful Operatic
		These are but a few of the "clinical" questions answered in Wozzeck, a powerful music psychodrama that, as Douglas Jarman suggests, "depicted mental instability in such a way that the audience shared this instability, rather than simply observing its outward effects." In present-day clinical language, Wozzeck suffers persecutory paranoia with traces of schizophrenia.
		Wozzeck's "funeral music" (also in D minor/major), which is heard in the interlude before the final scene, draws upon sketches that a youthful Berg, perhaps then at his most Mahlerian, once intended for a symphony.
		His reorchestration of Wozzeck was produced in 1995 by the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne and the Banff Centre for the Arts.
	www.scena.org /lsm/sm5-8/wozeck-en.htm (1132 words)

	Manfred Hugo Ludwig Gurlitt Wozzeck
		Wozzeck, an army private, is taunted by his superior officers and is also being cuckolded by his common-law wife Marie with whom he has a child.
		Wozzeck discards the knife in a lake, but later becomes paranoid that it will be found by the authorities.
		Gurlitt’s Wozzeck is less a victim of pseudo-scientific experimentation (as emphasized in Berg’s opera, particularly in the scenes with the Doctor and the Captain) than he is a victim of society itself.
	www.musikmph.de /musical_scores/prefaces/F-L/gurlitt_wozzeck.html (1103 words)

	Wozzeck OFNJ.; Wim Trompert Home Page
		Berg's 'Wozzeck' is an opera written in a mood of unrelieved tragedy.
		Daniel Suttin was Wozzeck, portraying a paranoid, schrizophrenic man's deterioration into the abbys with great effect.
		To be privileged to see and hear a 'Wozzeck' of such towering inspiration is something to keep in one's memory for a long time.
	home.planet.nl /~tromp172/wozzeckofnj.wimt.html (310 words)

	Metropolitan Opera International Radio Broadcast Information Center - 2006-07 Broadcasts
		Wozzeck and a fellow-solider, Andres, are cutting firewood for the Captain.
		Wozzeck confronts Marie with his suspicions and tries to force her to confess.
		Wozzeck's reminiscences about their life together make her nervous.
	www.operainfo.org /broadcast/operaSynopsis.cgi?id=110&language=1 (302 words)

	The Order in the Chaos of 'Wozzeck' - December 23, 2005 - The New York Sun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Alban Berg realized that he and his mentor Arnold Schonberg were in the process of revolutionizing music, and so, when he came to write "Wozzeck," he clung steadfastly to the late 19th-century Romantic tradition still holding sway in the first quarter of the 20th, incorporating many devices from the most beloved operas.
		His voice is abnormally shrill (he is played by the same singer as portrays the captain), and he tells Wozzeck that he smells blood on him.
		Inspired by Berg's own nightmarish military service, all of the other men are asleep and their snoring is a chorus of ghostly moans and the cries of banshees (the opera is worth hearing for this effect alone).
	www.nysun.com /article/24934 (697 words)

	Classical Notes - Berg's Wozzeck, Classical Classics, Peter Gutmann
		The roots of Berg's opera stretch back a century before its creation to 1824, when Johann Christian Woyzeck, a sometime soldier, barber, drifter and all-around loser, was publicly beheaded for murder, despite a then-novel defense of insanity stemming from the oppressive turns of his failed life.
		As with each act, the first ends with a brief scene that twists the emotions tighter - here, Marie is enthralled by a preening drum-major passing by her home and grabs him for a quick fling.
		The final act presents Marie's remorse as she reads the Bible with her child; her murder by a forest pond; Wozzeck's suspicious behavior in a tavern; and his own drowning when he attempts to retrieve the knife.
	www.classicalnotes.net /classics/wozzeck.html (1961 words)

	Opera Review: `Wozzeck'
		Nervous, driven, and abject, soldier Wozzeck is trying to make it in a world that he barely understands.
		Although the formal organization of the 15 scenes in the opera is rigidly organized, Berg preferred the viewer not to be conscious of their methodical plan.
		Wozzeck, the Captain, the Doctor and the Drum Major could be distinguished by their clothes.
	www.princetoninfo.com /200307/30716p02.html (878 words)

	Alban Berg
		Wozzeck had its premiere in Berlin in 1925 and thereafter was widely produced, bringing Berg financial security.
		His next work, the Chamber Concerto for violin, piano and 13 wind (1925), moves decisively towards a more classical style: its three formally complex movements are still more clearly shaped than those of the op.6 set and the scoring suggests a response to Stravinskian objectivity.
		Dramatically and musically the opera is a huge palindrome, showing Lulu's rise through society in her successive relationships and then her descent into prostitution and eventual death at the hands of Jack the Ripper.
	w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de /cmp/berg.html (581 words)

	MTV Movies \| Wozzeck \| Plot
		Wozzeck (Franz Grundheber) is living with Marie (Hildegard Behrens), a former prostitute and the mother of his young son.
		Meanwhile, Wozzeck has agreed to be part of a dietary experiment by a doctor (Aage Haugland), who seems pleased with his patient's increasing instability.
		Wozzeck suspects that something has occurred, a suspicion that is inflamed when the doctor and a captain for whom Wozzeck works taunt him with hints about Marie's faithlessness.
	www.mtv.com /movies/movie/134335/plot.jhtml (381 words)

	Amazon.com: Berg: Lulu; Wozzeck: Music: Evelyn Lear,Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau,Alban Berg,Karl BÃ¶hm,Orchester des ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Franz Wozzeck is a powerless man who has a child out of wedlock with a woman named Marie.
		Since Wozzeck is already teetering on the edge of sanity from his impotence and the experiments, he falls off and stabs Marie after she tells him that she would rather be stabbed than beaten.
		The last moment of the play involves Marie's and Wozzeck's orphan at play and running off the stage oblivious that he is alone in the world.
	www.amazon.com /Berg-Lulu-Wozzeck-Evelyn-Lear/dp/B00000E53D (2523 words)

	TIME.com: Wozzeck In Manhattan -- Apr. 23, 1951 -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In the opera, as in the original story, Wozzeck is a captain's batman who offers himself to the sardonic and sadistic regimental doctor as a physiological demonstration piece for the doctor's lectures.
		Wozzeck's purpose is to earn enough money to support his girl, Marie, and their child.
		Wozzeck's master, the captain, represents authority and unfeeling philistinism; the doctor, materialism and skepticism; the drum major, aggression and sexual cruelty; Wozzeck himself is the good-man-pure-fool of medieval literature.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,821549,00.html (720 words)

	Wozzeck -- Berg's Lecture 1929
		The last scene of Act II depicts the encounter between the jealous Wozzeck and the Drum Major, which ends with the defeat of Wozzeck.
		It is not, perhaps, an accident that the three figures appearing in this scene, Marie, her child and Wozzeck, form the basis of the three thematic groups of the musical exposition - the first subject, second subject and coda - of a strict sonata structure.
		Indeed the whole of the dramatic development of this jewel scene, the twofold repetitions of certain situations and the confrontation of the main characters, lends itself to a strict musical articulation with an exposition, a first reprise, development and finally a recapitulation.
	solomonsmusic.net /WozzeckLecture.htm (5529 words)

	Metropolitan Opera Broadcast: Wozzeck > Opera News > The Met Opera Guild
		Wozzeck enters; the guilty woman tries unsuccessfully to hide the earrings, then lies that she has found them.
		Wozzeck gives Marie his wages; when he leaves, she berates herself.
		Wozzeck moans that everything seems to be twisting in a terrifying red mist.
	www.metoperafamily.org /operanews/issue/article.aspx?id=1447&issueID=55 (1298 words)

	Berg, Wozzeck (Review II): Graham Clark, (Captain), Johan Reuter (Wozzeck), Susan Bullock (Marie), Kurt Rydl (Doctor), ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Although he has sung one Wozzeck with one of the smaller German companies, it is quite a leap from that to headlining at Covent Garden.
		The range in the part is demanding : at one moment Wozzeck is wonderstruck by the sun, at another he comes up with unexpected home truths.
		Harding may have been a protégé of Claudio Abbado, whose Wozzeck is still one of the best recordings, but he is clearly his own man when it comes to creating a vision of what the piece means.
	www.musicweb-international.com /SandH/2006/Jan-Jun06/wozzeck0703.htm (1244 words)

	TIME.com: Wozzeck in Philadelphia -- Mar. 16, 1931 -- Page 1
		Die Glückliche Hand.* But Wozzeck will be his first straight opera, the forerunner of others to be done with the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company next year.
		Wozzeck's plot is surprisingly old to be the perfect counterpart of Berg's ultra-modern score.
		Wozzeck is a poor bewildered soldier, stationed in a small German city in peacetime.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,769530,00.html (738 words)

	Wozzeck P.O.V. Wim Trompert
		Thus theirs is the madness of privilege, while Wozzeck's is the madness of desperation, a point Wim Trompert's direction made explicit and extremely effective.
		Instead, 'Wozzeck' titillates with a soaring score, expressionist sets and a theatricality rare for the art form.
		Alban Berg's contemporary opera, sung in German and based on a play by Georg Büchner, made its debut in 1925 and is gloriously revived by the POV.
	home.planet.nl /~tromp172/wozzeckp.o.v.wim.html (319 words)

	Wozzeck KAREOL http://www.supercable.es/~ealmagro/kareol/
		WOZZECK (bleibt nahe beim Doktor stehen, vertraulich) Herr Doktor.
		Wozzeck, Er kriegt noch einen Groschen mehr Zulage.
		WOZZECK (sieht sie starr an und schüttelt den Kopf) Ich seh' nichts, ich seh' nichts.
	www.geocities.com /ubeda2002/wozzeck/acto1.htm (7794 words)

	Playbill News: Tony Winner Des McAnuff to Helm Wozzeck in 2007
		Alban Berg's 1925 opera Wozzeck is based on the play of the same name by Georg Büchner.
		Set in Germany in the 1830's, the violent opera, which features a murder and suicide, concerns the descent of a dehumanized soldier named Wozzeck who is jealous of his wife.
		Wozzeck will be presented at the San Diego Opera in April 2007.
	www.playbill.com /news/article/84997.html (411 words)

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		Wozzeck is a complicated score held together by a tight relationship between traditional musical forms and crucial events that propel the drama.
		Wozzeck is often categorized as a so-called twelve-tone or atonal opera.
		Wozzeck is an extremely powerful work dramatically and emotionally.
	www.operapaedia.org /opera.aspx?id=4039 (830 words)

	Wozzeck @ Royal Opera House, London: opera review
		Breathing with the singers, this was a sensitively conducted performance, though at times some greater transparency of texture would have revealed the construction of the inner lines of the music.
		When Wozzeck learns that his lover Marie has been unfaithful to him, his already unbalanced mind is fully unhinged.
		I was particularly struck with the Act II Scene III encounter between Marie and Wozzeck, when Marie unwittingly gives Wozzeck the idea of stabbing her — 'rather a knife in my heart than lay a hand on me', as the programme puts it — which was here chillingly sung by Bullock in this triumphant debut.
	www.musicomh.com /opera/roh-wozzeck_0206.htm (684 words)

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