Wozzeck

In the organizer's words:

How much must a man endure before he kills?

In 1821, the unemployed wigmaker Johann Christian Woyzeck stabs his lover to death in Leipzig. The trial against him drags on for years until, after his sanity has been tested twice, all appeals for clemency are rejected and Woyzeck is sentenced to death. Alban Berg saw Georg Büchner's dramatization of this case at the Vienna Kammerspiele in 1914. In view of the outbreak of the First World War, the signs of human denaturation, which Berg addresses in his opera without turning them into striking social criticism, became more pronounced.

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