Alban Berg - Wozzeck

[Mattbass7]

She's my voice professor at FSU!!

[yourockets3]

Berg's best work - fine performance, fine scenes, fine direction

[LadyValentine930]

Oh this is some dark sh..!  Wowzers!

[Puff8daMagicDragon]

Warning!-Atonal music is sick, decadent and may cause or aggravate mental problems. Garbage in = Garbage out(neuroses,psychoses)

[FoggyRoad81]

I don't get it.

[WillShakespeare2007]

I have just been invited to see this - invitation declined! I am sure I'm missing something of artistic import but so be it.

[MegaDocalex]

LOL this is not horrible. Ligeti's Le Grand macabre, that is horrible. I think your are not familliar whit this style :P

[kinigit]

Which Act/Scene is this?

[PPanncho]

@kinigit Tercer Acto / Segunda Escena

[elgaed69]

I thought the point of twelve-tone music was to be free and loose, not to be disorienting and frightening... Listen to Schoenberg...

[omgaify]

Not to lower the tone here, but... are they standing on a block of cheese?

[LadyValentine930]

@omgaify lol! I was wondering the same thing! lol

[paolosilv]

Zimmermann's Die Soldaten and Schonberg's Moses und Aron, are two other twelve-tone works. I don't think there are many other such operas.

[BabexoSunnyaj895]

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[PorroFirst]

This is horrible.

[windstorm1000]

A very disturbing masterwork--a musical/dramatic reflection for what was going to happen next in the world: the Holocaust, WWII, Hiroshima, assasinations, environmental degradation, hunger, the works--oh, yes, this work speaks to our alienated times---we deserve it.

[dalecampbl8]

wozzeck is such a harsh opera...I guess we have to have it once in music, so wozzeck might as well be the beginning and ending of atonal opera because there can be no more room for this bad sounding music, other than one example for those to prove that it was doable and done...i think Berg will remain only amazing to those in musical academies or those who truly teach music, but for folks who want to enjoy music...Wozzeck is not really enjoyable

[witness124]

@dalecampbl8 I agree. Wozzeck is not meant for enjoyment, it's just too intense.

[levnest15]

Duesing looks kinda like John Malkovich here lol

[witness124]

Wozzeck is one of the most highly stylized and iconic characters of 20th century opera. Magnicficent. That slide of the voice at 0:44 is much frightening and the music is some of the most eerie i ahve ever encountered. This disturbed me, even more so than Tristan.

[papoocanada]

surprising the singers didnt break their necks on that stage......its real dumb

[moorsalin3]

the captain's costume haunts me

[Takoon]

So awesome! So scary! Gave me chills. ^.^

[anastaciamortimer]

Nothing better than twisted classical music, and this was way ahead of its time, no electronics, no editing, no computers.

[classicvinylbiz]

Wozzeck - Complete 1965 DG recording, Fischer-Dieskau, Evelyn Lear, Karl Bohm:

watch?v=ur2UTmGk9RY

thanks and regards

[TheImpressionable]

serialism FTW

[houndsofroses]

i dont think you would sing if you were being killed hehe

[bluemutedwisdom]

Please don't use this kind of language.

This opera of Berg is fantastic. The performance here is very good!

[MrHoneycreek]

Duesing as Wozzeck is simply awesome!

[TheDMUSE]

this is fantastic!

[jyrsjrdfngfs]

The most frightening piece of music ever written...and I mean that in a good way!

[caleron0]

@jyrsjrdfngfs oh really.. lol ... in a good way

[sw1seman]

wtf is going on???

[randomfrenchcanadian]

20th century dumbass composers. sounds like shit

[Dcomp29]

so false, you obviously haven't listened to this whole opera. Please be open minded

[rofklaw]

@randomfrenchcanadian yeah fuck them for trying something different!

[RogueRotting360]

@randomfrenchcanadian Go fuck yourself. 20th Century classical kicks arse.

[centerbark]

@RogueRotting360 It's either 20th Century, or Classical. It'can't be both. I agree though:)

[RogueRotting360]

@centerbark I speaking more in the general sense, classical music, as opposed to jazz or pop. Not the "classical period", which you are referring to.

[fairyofdew]

what a charming NOISE...

the tunes are so unique. the miserable Verdi would never be able to hummer out such beautiful tunes...

[saladshootavvv]

Yea, because Berg was trying to write hummable "memorable" melodies.

Get over it! you old grumpy ass man/woman.

This is almost 100 years old. How much of an uninteresting prude are you?

[randomfrenchcanadian]

Yup. Alban Berg ate shit then threw it up into his opera

[Dcomp29]

wow, how obnoxious

[dcrepino]

Tod!

[fantopera]

Magnífica interpretación de una òpera maravillosa del siglo XX que quisieramos ver más a menudo en la programación de los teatros operísticos .

[upatoia]

BERG is GREAT, but XXth century opera is not only WOZZECK !

Check other 50 operas by 50 other composers in my play list 20th CENTURY OPERA ( including the world premiere of ARIA DEL CIRUJANO from Opera Opus Operatorum by Roberto Rius & Pedro Ipuche Riva )

20th CENTURY OPERA : the MOST VIEWED and MOST COMPLETE last century opera playlist in YOU TUBE !

[gabydragona]

Thanks, I will...

[atralfalgar]

Berg's Lulu is great too

[TheImpressionable]

@atralfalgar its about a prostitute lol

[VolkColopatrion]

@atralfalgar

Kristine Ciesinski Had the part as lulu... Even though it was in German i knew what she was feeling when she was talking with the man with the knife.

i only saw that scene and i was sold.

[damianian89]

Das Stück ist schon sehr beeindruckend, aber man muss es echt mehrmals hören, um es schätzen zu können, aber meine Lieblingsstelle ist, wenn Marie schreit Was willst?! :-)

[meloncall]

this is my great-grand father!!

[rdnzl7878]

are you serious? then we're cousins!

[DocSarah]

la divina kristina ciesinski ....

[mason003]

That is my uncle!

[skippyjonjones23]

it's my voice teacher!

[BeQuietPeter]

Seriously? What a voice!

[nummerfuenfinMotion]

Alban hat sich auf sehr drastische Weise bei mir gemeldet. In der Bibliothek in Ulm lag plötzlich seine Biographie von Karen Monson in meinen Händen.

Zufall ?

[jamesaellis]

this is the first big opera i ever heard!

[urns100]

and your fucking pop rock too

[matoro1989]

is it wrong that I like both :/

[aldebussy]

Why am I getting this opera now after returning the DVD to the library??? Now, i like it. Back then, I hated it.

[nibelungensohn]

Wozzeck is my #5 favorite Opera. My top 4 being the Ring cycle.

[wolfka96]

Kristine Ciesinski is the ULTIMATE Marie. . . . VERY cool performance. . . .

[whatabandgeek1]

i love wozzeck!

<3

[JAL407]

Museumsorchester ist toll!!

[lacrima18]

An opera by Alban Berg and a directing by Peter mussbach... The absolute Compination.! This Opera is A true Diamond I believe.

[RowanSpry]

Absolutely brilliant. Could someone provide me with the names of similar composers? I love this stuff.

[pornomanjr]

you can try whith xenakis or stockhausen

[chubsoffire]

Schoenberg, Webern, Stravinsky.

[RowanSpry]

stravinksy!!! Who hasnt heard him. Thanks pornomanjr and Chubsofire.

[wagnerarg]

You must listen The opera of Béla Bártok ´´BlueBeard's Castle´´ ! !

:)

[aldebussy]

Do NOT check out Xenakis? He wrote pure crap in the name of philosophical music.

Go with students of Schoenberg. People who belonged to the Second Viennese School.

[RowanSpry]

Wasnt too impressed with Xenakis....The other was cool though.

Students of Schoenberg, Viennese School....Want to share any names? :)

[aldebussy]

Alban Berg(lol), Schoenberg, Glen Gould ( he has only a few compositions though), Anton Webern, Roberto Gerhard. These are the most significant ones. Have fun!

Check out BlueBeard's Castle by Bartok too. It's VERY dark.

[BlueCougar]

Dave Brubeck studied with Schoenberg, too... (no kidding)

[octavarium23]

Webern - five pieces for orchestra, five movements for string quartet, three lider... and Berg - Wozzeck and Violin Concerto.

[Leibo07]

But only late Strawinsky, post-war (WW2)

[bearsrider]

You can try with an italian composer who used the same composing techniques of Second Viennese School's composer. His name is Luigi Dallapiccola and, for my tastes, his best opera is "Il progioniero".

[bearsrider]

Sorry, a typo, I meant "Il prigioniero"

[scorpioncarmen]

I like italian opera more. This kills me.

[chubsoffire]

Modern italian opera?

What about Mozart?

If you are simply referring to the fact that it's modern, then that has nothing to do with it's nationality... please explain.

[JohnJohnson1147]

It's set on the moon

[scorpioncarmen]

it looks like they are singing on a banana. lol

[bananamusician]

Haha, I agree.

[FartedInYourFace]

Looks like cheese.

[Waggler]

That was powerful! I wonder what the setting is, considering the costuming.

[wolfka96]

Kristine Ciesinski's fantastic.

I've not heard a Marie sung this well for a VERY long time.

Great voice. Spooky presence.

[vvozzeck]

Yes Peter mussbach !! fantastic

[shellybabe313]

didn't peter mussbach direct this production no??

[CobaltJewel]

I ordered the full DVD of this yesterday and I can't wait. Second Vienesse school ftw!

[bighairybaby]

Nice staging. The last few acts of this opera are absolutely incredible - definitely my favourite thing in the whole genre. I have the famous Mitropolous recording, live at the Met around 1952. It's really brilliant. I used to know a guy who'd been great pals with Mitropolous. Apparently he could memorize a score like Wozzeck in around 8 hours!

[crimsonrose]

man the set for this version makes this so much crazier and creepier...

[buttnik2]

Upload act III, other than that, awesome.

[OsvaCola]

A very moving Wozzeck.The music sound very well and the mise en scene is magnificent

[rnabes4sosu]

so dark, erie. my saying is that an opera becomes an opera when the woman dies. just about any opera you come across the woman always dies.

[renethel]

haha lol that's so true! :-0

[hookana70]

And before she dies, she sings "non voglio morir, non voglio morir..." Except in Wozzeck.

[renethel]

what does that translate to in English?

[hookana70]

I don't wanna die, I don't wanna die...

[renethel]

interesting set!

[ajnoku]

i LOVE this opera! berg is one of my favorite composers.