/Beijing Music Festival 2025
Alban Berg’s opera is based on an unfinished play by Georg Büchner. In his composition, Berg gave an unstoppable momentum to the fragmentary scenes. Johan Simons takes us inside the mind of a man who is losing his grip on reality, or rather, a man who finds himself at the mercy of ruthless, mad world.
The space is the inside of Wozzeck's head: his canvas, an off-kilter and eerie playground over which he has no control. Moving shadows make one question the static nature of the space.
musical direction Alejo Pérez / direction Johan Simons / dramaturgy Maarten Boussery, Koen Tachelet / scenography Sammy Van den Heuvel / costume design Greta Goiris, Flóra Kruppa / light design Friedrich Rom