Wozzeck

In 1972 Elias Canetti said: "with Wozzeckm Buchner achieved the most complete revolution in the whole of literature." The same can be said of Berg's opera, as revolutionary in the history of music in our century as in opera in particular. Mark DeVoto and Theo Hirsbrunner discuss why this infinitely complex and formal score perfectly suits the confused and disordered nature of the play. In his famous essay about the opera (written in 1968, but given here for the first time in English) Theador …