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John Longmuir as The Captain, Michael Honeyman as Wozzeck and Richard Anderson as The Doctor in Opera Australia’s 2019 production of Wozzeck at the Sydney Opera House.
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Wozzeck, Opera Australia<\/em><\/p>\n

Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney Opera House<\/em><\/p>\n

25 January, 2019<\/em><\/p>\n

Considered one of the most formidable works in the canon, Opera Australia\u2019s presentation of Alban Berg\u2019s era-defining opera Wozzeck, <\/em>directed by William Kentridge, is brilliantly conceived and executed. An Opera Australia co-production with the Salzburg Festival, the Metropolitan Opera and The Canadian Opera Company, Sydney audiences are fortunate to see it within a year of its premiere at the Salzburg Festival in July 2018.<\/p>\n

A one-act opera, Wozzeck<\/em> is carried by 11 soloists, actors and appearances by the chorus and a children\u2019s chorus late in the piece. Berg himself wrote the libretto, based on the 1836 play Woyzeck<\/em> by Georg B\u00fcchner. Berg saw the play in 1914 and after an intensely visceral reaction to its drama, was impelled at once to set it to music. Interrupted by World War I and his conscription into the Austrian army, Berg returned to Wozzeck<\/em> after the war, completing it in 1922. Not yet renowned, Berg had to borrow money to publish and promote the opera, loans that were repaid with the assistance of Alma Mahler to whom he dedicated the score. Yet, the piece presented such challenges that interest in it was scarce. By the middle of the decade however, Erich Kleiber, (father of Carlos) was a fan of the play. Recently appointed music director of the Berlin Staatsoper, he championed Wozzeck<\/em>, which finally received its premi\u00e8re in Berlin on 14 December 1925.<\/p>\n

William Kentridge first encountered B\u00fcchner\u2019s piece over twenty years ago when he staged the theatre play. After his productions of The Nose<\/em> and Lulu,<\/em> he came to Wozzeck<\/em>, which he describes as \u201cno doubt, one of the great, great operas of the last century.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kentridge\u2019s deeply perceptive vision of Wozzeck<\/em> underscores and develops the themes of the strongly autobiographical narrative. \u201cThere is something of me in this Wozzeck\u201d wrote Berg to his wife. A socialist, he was attracted to the socio-political messages of the play and his libretto capitalises on the drama to reflects his own experiences of life, war and love. Wozzeck is a tormented soul, condemned to the lowest echelons of society. Too underprivileged to even observe social mores, Wozzeck is driven by nature. He has an illegitimate child with Marie, in parallel with the 17-year-old Berg who also fathered an illegitimate daughter, Albine,with a family servant.<\/p>\n

Sabine Theunissen\u2019s single set, without curtains is made up of a central \u2018island\u2019 (Wozzeck\u2019s mind) on which is strewn a jumble of broken furniture and household objects. There is a sense of precarious disintegration. Surrounding this podium, projections (by Catherine Meyburgh) of naive cartoons and themes of war sketched roughly in Kentridge\u2019s trademark charcoal style. flesh-out the story. Although B\u00fcchner\u2019s tale is set in a garrison town c 1830, Kentridge draws on Berg\u2019s horrific experiences of the war and sets Wozzeck<\/em> in the aftermath of that catalcysm. Images of war abound, based by him on pictures of the battles in Flanders \u2013 stage hands in gas masks, crumpled bodies, wounded soldiers on crutches, medics wearing red cross uniforms, crashed fighter planes, tangles of barbed wire; in the background. a Zeppelin floats silently past over bombed out buildings and maps of troop movements.<\/p>\n

Berg\u2019s atonal musical language and the zig-zagging set perfectly describe the dissonances and jagged edges of Wozzeck\u2019s mind. It is a language that evades predictability or security.\u00a0 His orchestration and use of form are intimately linked to the drama.<\/p>\n

A masterful teller of stories in music, Berg uses the 12-tone system as well as leitmotifs, (emulating his idols Wagner and Mahler) in drawing the characters and unifying the action. Not all is dissonance and atonality \u2013 Berg looks to a more accessible soundscape in depicting the l\u00e4ndler and waltz of the tavern scene, the march from the brass band and the lullaby sung by Marie.<\/p>\n

Michael Honeyman plays the title role engagingly, with wild-eyed tension and a sense of hopelessness. His mind has borne the brunt of too many medical experiments which he endures for its meagre payments, passed on to Marie to care for their child, depicted as marionette rendered faceless by wearing a gas mask. Lorina Gore as Marie is a woman whose dreams have come to nought. She hints at her personsl and physical sacrifice as she drapes herself across the furniture in the shape of a crucifix. Dressed in a dowdy house coat she is transfixed by the earrings given to her by her lover, the Drum-Major as she admires herself in the broken shard of a mirror. Plagued by guilt, Gore\u2019s depiction of Marie\u2019s search for redemption in the Biblical tale of Mary Magdalen as she tells her child a fairy story, is exquisitely touching. John Longmuir as The Captain, a buffo tenor role, gave the most exciting vocal performance of the evening despite the punishing vocal effects demanded of him. The cast was complemented by the sparkling tenor voices of The Drum-Major, sung by John Daszak from the premiere cast and Virgilio Marino as Wozzeck\u2019s friend Andres. There were strong performances too from Richard Anderson as the crazed Doctor and Dominica Matthews as Margret.<\/p>\n

Even the choreography is grotesque. But it is Berg\u2019s vocal writing that needs to be mentioned. His novel vocal techniques are unashamedly challenging, yet performed admirably by the OA cast. The punishing vocal line encompasses speech, parlando, Sprechgesang (spoken song) and arioso. It is less about beauty and more about expressing brutality and horror with a generous element of vocal athleticism and stamina, ably accomplished by this cast.<\/p>\n

Conductor Andrea Molino conducted a superb Opera Australia orchestra, deftly expressing the myriad old and new musical devices which Berg piled into his orchestral score, from fugues to whole-tone writing, to atonality. The vivid soundscapes created, matched the action on stage, realising Berg\u2019s innovative instrumental combinations.<\/p>\n

There is little that is sanguine about this piece. There are many complexities to Wozzeck<\/em>\u2019s musical structure, philosophical roots and personal anecdotes that go beyond the scope of this review. But they are well worth reading. It is these complexities and in particular, William Kentridge\u2019s genius that make this production of Wozzeck<\/em> so deeply engaging rather than distressing. In the very final horrific moments, the faceless child learns that its parents are dead. Its expression of resignation through the faintest of movements, are made all the more powerful for their subtlety; one of the most poignant scenes in the opera.<\/p>\n

\u201cNever in my wildest dreams would I have wished to reform the art-form of opera with the composition of Wozzeck<\/em>. \u2026 Apart from my desire to make good music, to fulfil musically the spiritual content of B\u00fcchner’s immortal drama, to transpose his poetic language into a musical one \u2013 apart from these things I had nothing else in mind when I decided to write an opera \u2026 than to return to the theatre what is the theatre’s.\u201d Alban Berg<\/p>\n

A must see!<\/p>\n

Shamistha de Soysa for SoundsLikeSydney\u00a9<\/em><\/p>\n

Wozzeck is performed at the Joan Sutherland Theatre of the Sydney Opera House on selected evenings till February 15, 2019.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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