Sir Simon Rattle conductor
Christian Gerhaher Wozzeck
Malin Byström Marie
Thomas Blondelle Tambourmajor
Brindley Sherratt Doktor
Peter Hoare Hauptmann, Der Narr
Robert Lewis Andres
Héloïse Mas Margret
Matthieu Toulouse Erster Handwerksbursche
Tomasz Kumięga Zweiter Handwerksbursche
London Symphony Orchestra
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
Maîtrise des Bouches-du-Rhône

Simon McBurney stage director
Miriam Buether set design
Christina Cunningham costume design
Paul Anderson lighting design
Leah Hausman choreography
Will Duke video
Gerard McBurney dramaturgy
Sasha Milavic-Davies collaboration to the stage direction

1 hour and 40 minutes without interval

Wozzeck is a brave soldier, a scapegoat of a whole social system, who kills his mistress out of jealousy and then takes his own life.

The Romantic playwright Büchner painted this vivid portrait in the early days of industrialisation: a relentless movement of objectification of beings that culminates in World War I – of which Berg’s opera is, in its own way, an echo, as much as it prophesies the world to come.

For his third time at the Festival d’Aix en Provence, Simon McBurney directs this landmark of 20th-century opera. Sir Simon Rattle conducts the London Symphony Orchestra and a first-rate cast; Christian Gerhaher brings all his Lieder skills in a subtle and heart-rending incarnation of the title role as a myth of our time.