Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It is extraordinary to think that Büchner’s play Woyzeck was written before Queen Victoria came to the throne ...

The London Philharmonic under Edward Gardner combined with video art by Ilya Shagalov that was riveting and, in places, not for the squeamish Nobody ever came out of a performance of Wozzeck thinking ...

You can tell a piece of art is great when, a century after its premiere, it keeps teaching us about contemporary life. And, like them or not, there are life lessons to be found in Alban Berg’s Wozzeck ...

Alban Berg’s Wozzeck is arguably the most important opera composed in the first half of the 20th century. It is certainly one of the most powerful, and its emotional impact remains as strong today as ...

At the end of ENO's new staging of Wozzeck, the last thing you feel like doing is clapping. Carrie Cracknell's powerful production asks for silence; time to absorb the shock of it. Wozzeck and his ...

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Andris Nelsons led the orchestra and a distinguished cast in a viscerally charged performance of Berg’s prescient, premonitory score “Why is the world so sad?” asks one character in “Wozzeck.” It’s ...

This is recession Britain - another twist - and Tom Scutt's towering tenement-like cross-section of squalid rooms is an ugly reminder of that irrefutable fact. At the bottom of the tower block, the ...

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 ...