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«Wozzeck» by Alban Berg at the Liceu

Conductor: Josep Pons. Stage director: William Kentridge

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The Liceu presents the opera Wozzeck by Alban Berg with a staging signed by the South African plastic artist William Kentridge, to whom the CCCB dedicated the exhibition “William Kentridge. What is not drawn» last year.

On 5 May 1914, Alban Berg attended the first performance of the play Woyzeck by Georg Büchner. The story impressed him so deeply that he decided to use it for an opera. He completed the score in 1922, interweaving some of his own experiences on the staff of the Austrian Ministry of War during World War I into the plot. Today, as at the time of the premiere, it evokes the brutality and despair of a society crushed by the horrors of warfare.

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