Alban Berg News

You read that right. Ruth Dobson, an organizer of the Astoria Music Festival, confirmed today that the festival will perform Alban Berg's opera "Wozzeck" next summer.

Her longtime collaborator, pianist Gerald Martin Moore, will provide instrumental support.

In 1927 the Mariinsky Theatre in Leningrad became only the third opera house to stage Alban Berg's "Wozzeck," after the opera's 1925 premiere in Berlin and a production in Prague.

ELISABETH Soderstrom, the Swedish soprano greatly admired for her sensitive operatic roles and for her refined, delicately shaded voice in a career spanning more than 50 years, has died of complications from a stroke in Stockholm.

Slap this diskinto your CD player and you might think someone left the asylum door unlocked.

A much heralded French theater and opera director, Patrice Chereau has increasingly been directing feature films, finding his widest audience with "La Reine Margot/Queen Margot" , adapted from the Dumas novel.... A much heralded French theater and opera director, Patrice Chereau has increasingly been directing feature films, finding his widest ...

Many artists have been drawn to "Woyzeck," a "proletarian tragedy" left unfinished by German dramatist Georg Buechner when he died in 1837, not published until 1879 and not produced until 1913.

Alban Berg's opera Wozzeck is based on scenes from an unfinished play, Woyzeck , by Georg Bchner.

THEATRE: Woyzeck. Sadari Movement Laboratory. Director: Do Wan Im. OzAsia Festival.

ALBAN BERG adapted the libretto for Wozzeck from a 19th-century play based on a true story about a German soldier executed for murdering his mistress.

OPERA star Waltraud Meier, the German mezzo-soprano hailed as much for her powerful presence as powerful voice, is back at the Paris Opera on Thursday in one of her most well-known roles.

Michael Schade is a wonderful tenor we can proudly claim as our own -- though raised in Germany, he's based in Canada.

The story of Johann Christian Woyzeck goes like this: A German man born into poverty in the late 18th century tries his hand in several professions.

Classical Scores Library has added 918 new works totaling 47,488 pages. New scores from Faber and contemporary music publisher Universal Edition include works by Joseph Achron, Richard Rodney Bennett, Alban Berg, Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, Anne Boyd, Anton Bruckner, Frederick Delius, Morton Feldman, Leos Janacek, Gustav Mahler, Frank Martin, ...

If someone had told Swedish soprano Agneta Eichenholz she'd make her debut with Britain's Royal Opera singing the lead in Alban Berg's sinister and dark "Lulu," she'd have thought it was a prank.

After two concerts of compositions of short or moderate time scales, the third concert in the San Francisco Symphony Dawn to Twilight festival of the music of Franz Schubert and Alban Berg moved into the domain of longer durations, representing each composer by a single work.

Alban Berg's 'Lulu' was never a date opera, but a new production makes a bleak story even bleaker.

Society is a circus. Man is a beast. Morality is a sham. That is the premise on which Frank Wedekind and Alban Berg worked in creating the earth-spirit that is Lulu.

Shockingly beautiful: Kelly Kaduce as Salome, shown with the head of Jokanaan. Details: Salome Through June 28 at the Loretto-Hilton Center, 130 Edgar Road, Webster Groves.

She seduces, she kills, she winds up a prostitute and gets murdered by Jack the Ripper.