ALBAN BERG • WOZZECK
Premiere August 8th, 2017 | Haus für Mozart | Salzburg Festival 2017
Opera in three acts, Op. 7 (1917-22)
Louise Bourgeois, “Insomnia”
Libretto by Alban Berg after Georg Büchner’s fragmentary play Woyzeck (1836)
New production
Salzburg Festival 2017
Sung in German with German and English surtitles
Coproduction with the Metropolitan Opera, New York,
and the Canadian Opera Company, Toronto
With German and English surtitles
CREATIVE TEAM
Vladimir Jurowski, Conductor
William Kentridge, Director
Luc De Wit, Co-Director
Sabine Theunissen, Sets
Greta Goiris, Costumes
Catherine Meyburgh, Video Compositor & Editor
Urs Schönebaum, Lighting
Kim Gunning, Video Operator
CAST
Matthias Goerne, Wozzeck
John Daszak, Drum Major
Mauro Peter, Andres
Gerhard Siegel, Captain
Jens Larsen, Doctor
Tobias Schabel, First Apprentice
Huw Montague Rendall*, Second Apprentice
Heinz Göhrig, Madman
Asmik Grigorian, Marie
Frances Pappas, Margret
Salzburger Festspiele und Theater Kinderchor
Wolfgang Götz, Children’s Chorus Master
Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus
Ernst Raffelsberger, Chorus Master
Vienna Philharmonic
* Member of the Young Singers Project – Supported by the Kühne Foundation
Salzburger Bachchor
ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien