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The machinery of death looms large in Lyric Opera's 'Wozzeck' by Hedy Weiss

Sick, sick, sick. And a musical drama that just might be the most intimate and chillingly prophetic anatomy of 20th century manifestations of human cruelty, suffering and experimentation. Alban Berg's opera, "Wozzeck," which debuted in 1925, and is based on an unfinished play by George Buchner penned nearly a century earlier, is not for the meek. But in its new Lyric Opera of Chicago production it is mesmerizing from…

SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 07:39PM on November 1, 2015

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