WHAT'S UP WITH WOZZECK? Alban Berg's Wozzeck must have been quite shocking in 1925 at its first public performance in Berlin. Why? Musically, it's regarded as the first opera in the 20th-century avant-garde style, notable for its atonality and use of sprechgesang (more like spoken song than sung speech). They're both techniques made famous by […]
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:30PM on November 2, 2015