Schoenberg praises his pupil, Alban Berg and talks of his surprise that he could write an opera with the ferocity of Wozzeck ...

It may be an acquired taste, but once music lovers develop an interest in the music of 20th-century composer Alban Berg, it can become a passionate preference. If you are timid sampling atonal music, ...

With all of its melodrama and bellicosity, opera has always been a tough nut for avant-garde composers to crack. The very nature of opera demands a certain traditionalism that requires composers to ...

One of the worst times of a military deployment is the holidays. No matter how big the care packages are, no matter what special food they whip up in the chow hall, most soldiers are thinking of home ...

Even knowing what would be inside the box did not prepare me for the velocity of the shiver down my spine. That elegant face, familiar from countless photographs. Eyes serenely closed. Lips gently ...

The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD broadcast of Alban Berg’s shocking opera “Wozzeck” will be broadcast at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center at 10:55 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 11. Sung in German with ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Is Wozzeck, the eponymous soldier-protagonist in Alban Berg's dark opera truly deranged or is he the only one who can perceive the ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Thursday’s program by the Cleveland Orchestra ended its subscription season at Severance Music Center. The evening started with Richard Wagner’s Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan ...

“In the ranks of major composers, Alban Berg is a strange, almost freakish case,” writes Alex Ross this week (subscribers can read the column online). “In his youth, the Austrian composer merely ...

Andris Nelsons led the orchestra and a distinguished cast in a viscerally charged performance of Berg’s prescient, premonitory score “Why is the world so sad?” asks one character in “Wozzeck.” It’s ...

WILLIAM KENTRIDGE is a South African artist best known for his prints, drawings and sculptures—which have fetched up to $1m at auction—and for his films, which often depict the process of creating and ...