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

Opera 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.

“Mesmerizing! Devastating!”
- San Francisco Classical Voice

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

REVIEWS

San Francisco Classical Voice
Chronicle (Joshua Kosman)
San Jose Mercury News (also in Hayward, Contra Costa Times, and Alameda)
Examiner.com
Opera Tattler
Iron Tongue of Midnight
The Reverberate Hills; or The Apotheosis of the Narwhal
Not for Fun Only
Repeat Performances

CAST

Wozzeck, Bojan Knezevic
Captain, John Duykers
Andreas, J. Raymond MeyersMarie, Patricia Green
Doctor, Philip Skinner
Margret, Erin Neff
First Apprentice, John Bischoff
Second Apprentice, Mark Hernandez
Madman/Soldier, Michael Desnoyers
Marie’s child, Kai Nau

ARTISTIC TEAM

Conductor, Nicole Paiement
Stage Director, Brian Staufenbiel
Media Artist, Austin Forbord
Set/Lighting Designer, Matthew Antaky
Costumer, Vicky Mae Nebeker
Wig and Makeup, Jeanna Parham

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