PRODUCTIONS

ALBAN BERG’S OPERA WOZZECK

West Coast Premiere

January 2010

Composer: Alban Berg
Librettist: Alban Berg based on playwright Georg Büchner play, Woyzeck
Composer Chamber Orchestration: John Rea
Conductor: Nicole Paiement
Director: Brian Staufenbiel

“Mesmerizing! Devastating!” – San Francisco Classical Voice

Ensemble Parallèle produced the San Francisco Bay Area premiere of Alban Berg’s seminal opera Wozzeck in a chamber orchestration by John Rea and received acclaim by reviewers and audiences alike.

Heralded by the San Francisco Classical Voice as “mesmerizing,” and “devastating,” Ensemble Parallèle’s critically-acclaimed production brought Berg’s dark masterpiece to life, with “images and scenes that continue to haunt the memory.”