NEW YORK — Even Alban Berg was shocked by the success of his opera “Wozzeck” at its 1925 Berlin premiere. The opera after all was written mostly in a freely atonal style, the kind of music that ...

Premiering in Berlin in 1925, Wozzeck has lost none of its dramatic power to affect audiences. Berg’s avant-garde opera, composed during and shortly after World War I, tells the tragic tale of an ...

Alban Berg’s bleak opera “Wozzeck” might not seem suited to the holiday season. One of the least cheerful pieces in the repertory, it tells the story of an impoverished and increasingly delusional ...

Andris Nelsons led the orchestra and a distinguished cast in a viscerally charged performance of Berg’s prescient, premonitory score “Why is the world so sad?” asks one character in “Wozzeck.” It’s ...