Wozzeck, opera's darkest antihero tale (Alban Berg)

Before there was Breaking Bad and Joker, there was Wozzeck: an intense and dark opera by Alban Berg about the downfall of a man, who through mistreatment, humilliation and poverty looses his mind and destroys what he loves most. As you can tell, this video is quite intense, but there are many important messages we can take away from it.
Literary sources:
Alex Ross," The rest is noise"
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Wozzeck lecture by Alban Berg
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Updated April 2022: check out this wonderful analysis David Bruce
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Video source:
This video uses small fragments for educational purposes of the following:
Wozzeck, by Alban Berg, performed by the Hamburg State Opera, 1970.
Link to watch the full opera:

[@davidmayhew8083]

Thankyou! Wozzeck is a GREAT opera. The music is amazing, thrilling and bizarre.

[@howimettheopera]

couldn't agree more!

[@antonw.6045]

What an awesome Video about this interesting piece of art. Keep it up and do more of those Opera Plot analysis it’s great

[@Draxtor]

I love Wozzeck sooo much! And this TV production is superb :)

[@oddpersona22]

Thank you☀🌲

[@melinalopez9574]

I'm always learning something new in your channel Anna!

[@howimettheopera]

That’s awesome, thanks for watching ;)

[@saidtoshimaru1832]

And he wasn't even called Wozzeck (yes, then they discovered in Büchner's manuscript he was called Woyzeck). It was too late for Berg to change it.

[@jacobinonegro]

Your channel is great and this video is awesome! Thank you!

[@howimettheopera]

Thank you so much!

[@etimobiomateriales826]

i had no idea! awsome

[@howimettheopera]

thanks for watching ;)

[@oxoelfoxo]

I just saw David Bruce's video on Wozzeck (with too much reference to Guinness) and had forgotten that you did it first. I also read the Wikipedia entry to Lulu and it's even crazier, whoa.

[@davidmayhew8083]

Yes. Lulu is like a satire about outrageous narratives found in many operas. Another masterpiece.

[@oxoelfoxo]

Aah, I remember Eddy talking about that kid in a TwoSet video though I don't remember the context. Thanks for the rundown. I doubt I'm ever gonna watch/listen to it. It's enough for me to know the story; real life is depressing enough.

[@fredrickroll06]

Does this mean that Berg invented the twelve-tone row in the Doctor scene years before Schönberg invented it?

[@gerboosh]

It was technically invented by Josef Hauer in 1919, the same year Berg completed writing act 1! Schönberg created an improved theory based on his in 1923 which is used over Hauer’s today. Beyond this, Berg and Schönberg studied music theory together so it’s very likely that they were both experimenting with these concepts before Schönberg ever wrote them down.

[@flyaway6646]

Hello Anna. I am a composer.