The Houston Symphony's performance of Alban Berg's opera "Wozzeck" on Friday inevitably left a great deal to the imagination. There were no sets, only a table and chair and a few benches to give the ...

Like a grim, silent sentry, a monument to the victims of World War I looms upstage in Scottish director David McVicar’s stark and wrenching new production of Alban Berg’s “Wozzeck” at Lyric Opera of ...

Peter Mattei in the title role and Elza van den Heever as Marie in William Kentridge’s new production of Berg’s Wozzeck. Ken Howard / Met Opera An ideal performance of Alban Berg’s eldritch opera ...

Every so often, a production comes around that leaves you pondering about the show when it is done. For me, it's usually a jarring show that asks the audience to think about how we see things in the ...

An opera designed and directed by globally acclaimed South African artist William Kentridge was rapturously received at its Opera House premiere tonight. Wozzeck, by Austrian composer Alban Berg, ...

Traveling to opera premieres, even if the opera house in question shows a seasoned hand at treating journalists exceedingly well, can be a bummer. For every traveled mile, expectations sneakily, ...

What is the sound of a man drowning? Near the end of Alban Berg’s “Wozzeck,” a 20th century masterpiece about the inevitable humiliation of army life, the protagonist, having slit the throat of his ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In a public conversation artist and director William Kentridge said opera is an artform of excess – there is always more going on than ...

You may not have heard of it, but it's kind of like the European "Grammy." It's called the ECHO Klassik Award. Sign up for the Hello, Houston! daily newsletter to get local reports like this delivered ...

And since it's not too often that stagings of the opera actually address the issue of his profession there is an added immediacy. This is the here and now of a Britain effectively still caught up in a ...