Despite being a victim, Konieczny commands the stage with his powerhouse singing. Davis keeps it edgy as Konieczny spirals into derangement. In the doctor’s office, the melodies have this plucky madness to them. Under the animated baton of Sir Andrew Davis, the music marries the mood perfectly. Even now remembering the moment makes me shudder. Flickers of light illuminate his face darkened with a look of pure evil. In one of the final scenes, Konieczny is sitting by the water. From the physical torture endured for love to the emotional anguish inflicted by his love, Konieczny captivates. He stalks the flirtatious Angela Denoke (Marie). Although people are drinking, laughing and carousing, Konieczny’s agitated presence steals focus. As the stage is filled with the ensemble reveling, Tomasz Konieczny (Wozzeck) looms on the fringe. And the over-arching hypotheses is people are capable of horrible acts out of vanity, desperation and jealousy.ĭirector Sir David McVicar keeps this tense. The mildew-stained curtains reinforces the poverty variable in this surreal laboratory. Using these curtains as the backdrops in scenes suggests we are observing a bigger experiment in humanity. The sound of the curtain hooks across the metal line is that familiar, institutional sound that precedes a doctor’s entrance. It’s effective in not only establishing location but the curtain also seems to symbolize something bigger. A hidden person races across the stage to reveal a tavern, a barracks, a lake. Two stage-wide curtains, fashioned like the material dividers in a clinic, transition scene to scene. Visually, WOZZECK is like no other opera I’ve experienced at the Lyric. Knowing it predates the WWII atrocities that the world will eventually discover is disturbingly creepy. The premise is a disturbing recollection of Hitler’s efforts to build a superior race. For cash, he becomes a medical experiment for a diabolical doctor.
It is about a poverty-stricken soldier supporting his girlfriend and their son.
He premiered it before World War II… in Germany. He begin writing the opera about a soldier named Wozzeck during World War I. He had seen the the 1830‘s play “Wozzeck” in 1914. Historically, Composer Alban Berg debuted this opera in Berlin in 1925. Lyric’s latest opera is a unique theatrical experience for multiple reasons. The Lyric Opera of Chicago presents a new production of WOZZECK.
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