Description
Summary: | James Levine, a longtime champion of this groundbreaking work, has conducted every Met performance of Wozzeck since 1974. He brings Berg's revolutionary score to dramatic life in this broadcast, leading an extraordinary cast headed by Christian Boesch and Hildegard Behrens. Boesch gives a heartbreaking performance as the poor, abused soldier of the title, and Behrens is stunning as his faithless and conflicted wife, Marie. Richard Cassilly sings the vain Drum Major who seduces her, and Ragnar Ulfung and Franz Mazura are the Captain and the Doctor, who mock and torture Wozzeck.
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Item Description: | Duration: 1 hr., 34 min., 24 sec. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 audio file (1 hr., 34 min., 24 sec.)) |
Playing Time: | 01:34:24 |
Participant or Performer: | Hildegard Behrens ; Ragnar Ulfung ; Richard Cassilly ; Christian Boesch ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; James Levine, conductor. |
Language: | Sung in German. |
Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Vendor-supplied metadata. |
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note: | Recorded live in 1985 at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, New York. |