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Metropolitan Opera: Berg’s Wozzeck

A scene from William Kentridge's new production of Berg's "Wozzeck.
Ken Howard
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Metropolitan Opera
A scene from William Kentridge's new production of Berg's "Wozzeck.

Airs Saturday, January 11, 2020, at 12 noon. The 2019-20 Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast season continues with Berg’s gripping masterpiece Wozzeck, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the Met’s Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer Music Director. Baritone Peter Mattei makes a role debut this season as the title character, a lowly soldier who falls apart under systematic abuse and humiliation. Soprano Elza van den Heever also adds a new role to her repertoire as Marie, Wozzeck’s unfaithful lover. The cast also features Christopher Ventris, Gerhard Siegel, and Christian Van Horn, in a new production by the acclaimed South African artist William Kentridge. Wozzeck will be heard live over Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network at 1:00 p.m. ET on Saturday, January 11.