Wozzeck

Genre: Music Crime Drama
Run time: 97 min
Premiere: 1987. January 1.

Director: Brian Large Ernst Neuspiel Franz Kabelka
Writer: Alban Berg Georg Büchner
Starring: Claudio Abbado Franz Grundheber Walter Raffeiner Philip Langridge

1987 recording of Wozzeck by the Vienna State Opera with Claudio Abbado conducting. Based upon Georg Büchner's 1837 play, Alban Berg's Wozzeck details the harsh existence of the title character, a former soldier in the German army who has to struggle mightily to make a living, even as others around him prosper.