Alban Berg, Wozzeck Act 3 Sc 2 + 3

[therealericmeyer]

I love the out of tune piano showing Wozzeck's distortion of reality.

[martebene]

Che tristezza...Marie sembra una povera zoccola...

(trad: Jesus! Marie's face seems just like a poor bitch's one! I hope this traduction is right!)

[GiovanniTancrediChan]

@martebene Marie ERA una prostituta no?

[martebene]

@GiovanniTancrediChan

ma sei sicuro? non insisto perchè nn sono sicuro...però ribadisco, anzi chiarisco, quello che volevo dire: al di là se Marie facesse o meno il Mestiere, il senso del mio commento era: per una scena così profonda e drammatica che aspetto da battona la povera Marie...

[GiovanniTancrediChan]

@martebene Si, guardati la scena 3 del primo atto, lei si riferisce al bambino chiamandolo "son of a whore" o qualcosa del genere, quindi credo proprio lei prima di Wozzeck fosse una prostituta! Poi guardalo nell'ottica dell'espressionismo, vuole essere una critica alla società e l'aspetto da battona ci sta tutto! Anche "Cinque donne nella strada" di kirchner raffigurava delle prostitute se ricordo bene!

[spizzell1]

Her scream at 2:49 is scary and well done. Great acting.

[PrevitaliA]

Goodness, it's a mess, people who pretend to find any music in this chaos are snobs, nothing else! Hate this howling

[Bridor1]

@PrevitaliA Actually, the definition of a snob is one who asserts that they are superior to other people, thereby making *you* the snob. And an uneducated snob, at that, as told by your baseless (and, quite literally, wrong) statement, "It's a mess." If you don't like it, don't listen: that's the beauty of the internet.

[classicvinylbiz]

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

watch?v=ur2UTmGk9RY

thanks and regards

[blkjock81]

This is friggin' brilliant!

[ideniseb]

At around 4:35-4:38.......that piano player almost looks like Bjorn from ABBA!

[gokudabomb1]

3:53

he is conducting with a cooked spaghetti noodle

[alimac1991]

very expressive piece by berg, wonderful yet frightening x

[emilybruch]

frightening :(

[ideniseb]

Man....the expressions on that guy's face are

stunning,simply stunning!

[eddimull]

He's quite sweaty, too...

[NutterCalledJinxie]

Ano, is there a part missing? -muses- Or this is a different compisition to the one I'm studying... Hmm...

[ideniseb]

There is one moral to this story....never

head off to a bar after slaughtering

someone without cleaning up first!

The murder of Marie was tragic enough

but,the pass he makes at Margaret,calling

her HOT was TOO FUNNY!

[CosmicRuna]

thaks a million for putting this up

I mist a chance of seeing live some years ago and really regret it

can any one tell me if Berg had (besides Schoenberg) any other influence?

like Stravinski? how those two developed such similar styles?

[ashleythe8th]

SCHAURIG!

[ideniseb]

Can't carry a tune in a bucket?

You automatically qualify for a role in this one!

I think this might be some of the top secret

music used in the terrorist inquisitions at

GITMO!

[PLIGHTxOFxICARUS]

of course its atonal you sillies!!!

ITS 12-TONE

[clhamberger]

It's actually not twelve-tone, at this point Berg was still writing in a more or less "free" atonal language. His second opera "Lulu" however is twelve-tone, both are amazing works and I'd recommend checking out "Lulu" to anyone who is interested in this type of music : )

[Aquired2]

He remembers me of George Hearn in Sweeney Todd :S

[owenboi66]

Atonal maybe - but subtle, delicate and often beautiful. I love this opera, and this production is magnificent.

[tommyk77]

This is more like hyper-romantic tonality. Just very very chromatic

[JoshuaMazur]

That Facial expression at 2:09 Creeps me the F*** out!

[coryisawake]

The acting and direction of this production still amazes me.

[bodec01]

this guy fucking sucks

[clarksc1988]

I still can't watch this with the lights off.

[Hexameron]

Grundheber's performance is stunning... look at his Nosferatu-like gesture at 2:15

[petracic]

I saw a proscenium production in Chicago with Abbado, Behrens, and Benjamin Luxon. It was incredible. Also half the audience dribbled out before the end. It was the operatic experience of my life, more memorable than Gotterdammerung at Bayreuth in 1976.

Richard in Kansas City

[elabran110]

Awesome, I only wish the final scene (with the other chidrem telling Marie's son that she is dead) was on here... so creepy.

[ShipsAreBurned]

This is insane, I'm freaking out watching this madness.

[nal1702]

The piano in this production makes me happy.

[principalbass]

One of my classmates came up with the greatest description ever: "I'm going to write an atonal opera; fuck you!"

[PoseidonRM]

This is a great production.  Very intense. These are my favorite parts.

[jonahbegone]

Wozzeck - my favorite opera. Discovered it when I was but 17. This looks like an ideal staging. That knifing scene - whew - is suitably intense.

[pfeliks]

I saw Madame Behrens perform this opera in a concert version with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the 80's. I went fully expecting NOT to like it. Now I consider it one of the Highlights of my opera attending career. It was absolutely mesmerizng and spellbinding. Half of the audience left at the interval. The rest of us who stayed screamed our lungs out with ovation after ovation!

[brendanemig]

mensch... this opera is so creepy

[segerocker]

I luv that about it,amazingly dissonant and creepy! Its more of a reality than some other operas

[derwozzeck]

Thanks, nice post. Ach Marie, Ach Hildegard....