15 Facts About Wozzeck

Wozzeck is the first opera by the Austrian composer Alban Berg.

Wozzeck spent a good deal of his time through the 1920s and 30s travelling to attend performances and to give talks about the opera.

Wozzeck is generally regarded as the first opera produced in the 20th-century avant-garde style and is one of the most famous examples of atonality and Sprechgesang.

Wozzeck is clearly associated with two motifs, one often heard as he rushes on or off stage, the other more languidly expressing his misery and helplessness in the face of the pressures he experiences.

The fourth scene of act 1, focusing on Wozzeck and the Doctor, is a passacaglia.

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Wozzeck is shaving the Captain, who lectures him on the qualities of a "decent man" and taunts him for living an immoral life.

Wozzeck has frightening visions and Andres tries unsuccessfully to calm him.

Wozzeck makes advances on her, which she first rejects but then accepts after a short struggle.

Wozzeck asks where she got the earrings, and she says she found them.

When Wozzeck comes by, they insinuate that Marie is being unfaithful to him.

Enraged, Wozzeck is about to hit her when she stops him, saying even her father never dared lay a hand on her.

Wozzeck enters, and upon seeing Margret, dances with her and pulls her onto his lap.

Wozzeck uses a fairly large orchestra and has three onstage ensembles in addition to the pit orchestra .

German composer Manfred Gurlitt's Wozzeck, based on Buchner's play, was first performed four months after Berg's work.

Gurlitt's Wozzeck, which was created without any knowledge of Berg's, has remained in its shadow.