After wowing audiences with his astounding production
of Lulu in 2015, South African artist William Kentridge now focuses
his extraordinary visual imagination on Berg’s other operatic masterpiece, set
in an apocalyptic pre–World War I environment. Met Music Director Yannick
Nézet-Séguin is on the podium for this important event, with baritone Peter Mattei
making his highly anticipated role debut as the title character. Soprano Elza
van den Heever is Wozzeck’s unfaithful mate, and the commanding cast also
includes tenor Christopher Ventris as the Drum-Major, bass-baritone Christian
Van Horn as the Doctor, and tenor Gerhard Siegel as the Captain.
A co-production of the Metropolitan Opera; Salzburg
Festival; the Canadian Opera Company, Toronto; and Opera Australia
Production a gift of Robert L. Turner