Wozzeck

Composer: Berg, Alban

Librettist/Text Author: Berg, Alban

Conductor: Currentzis, Teodor

Orchestra: Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra

Chorus: Bolshoi Theatre Chorus

Chorus Master: Borisov, Valery

Andres: Shulakov, Roman

Captain: Paster, Maksim

Doctor: Migunov, Peter

Drum-major: Muravitsky, Roman

First Apprentice: Gilmanov, Valery

Madman: Bomstein, Leonid

Margret: Vyaznikova, Xenia

Marie: Byers, Mardi

Marie's son: Nespovity, Alexandre

Second Apprentice: Kazansky, Nikolai

Wozzeck: Nigl, Georg

Set Designer: Tcherniakov, Dmitri

Costume Designer: Zaytseva, Ekaterina

Lighting Designer: Filshtinsky, Gleb

Stage Director: Tcherniakov, Dmitri

Television Director: Sommer, Andy

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Date of Production: 11-2010

Venue: Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow

Playing Time: 01:51:25

Catalogue Number: BAC068

UPC: 3760115300682

Libretto

Wozzeck EN

Synopsis

Wozzeck

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The Russian director's aim with this bold, sensitive transposition was "to highlight the hidden sorrows of a late twentieth-century man dwelling in a megalopolis."

The redoubtably complex title role was entrusted to Austrian baritone Georg Nigl. Born in Vienna in 1972, Georg Nigl was solo soprano with the Vienna Boys Choir prior to three years as an actor at the Burgtheater in Vienna. He began training as a singer at the Hochschule fur Musik in Vienna in 1990, before going on to the Kammersangerin Hilde Zadek. Over the last few years he has worked with, among others, Thomas Hengelbrock and his Baltasar Neumann Ensemble, Jordi Savall and his Hesperion XXI Ensemble, and Giovanni Antonini and Luca Pianca and their Il Giardino Armonico.

American soprano Mardi Byers plays Marie. A native of Colorado, she made her international debut as Tosca in Lubeck and Elisabetta in Don Carlos in Wiesbaden and Basel. She has also sung Donna Anna and Suor Angelica at the New York City Opera, as well as Elisabeth in Tannhauser and Ariadne in Nuremberg.

Greek conductor Teodor Currentzis directs the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra and Chorus. Artistic director of the Perm Opera and founder and musical director of the Musica Aeterna ensemble, Teodor Currentzis is now to be seen in the world's leading venues: the Opera de Paris, Opernhaus Zurich, Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden and the Teatro Real in Madrid.