Artist

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Orchestra Wellington

Singer

Baritone

Julien Van Mellaerts

Wozzeck

Soprano

Madeleine Pierard

Marie

Tenor

Corey Bix

Captain

Jason Collins

Drum Major

Bass

Paul Whelan

Doctor

Alex Lewis

Andres

Contralto

Margaret Medlyn

Margret

Robert Tucker

First Apprentice

Patrick Shanahan

Second Apprentice

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Tudor Consort

Schola Cantorum of St. Mark’s School

Orchestra

Conductor

Marc Taddei

Cristian Damir Martinez Vega

Red Moon

Wellington

New Zealand

Michael Fowler Centre

Red Moon: Wozzeck (arr. Eberhard Kloke) Kloke | Berg

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Wozzeck (arr. Eberhard Kloke)

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Red Moon: Wozzeck Berg

Beneath the singers’ powerful vocal lines, the orchestra flickers and gleams, quick and variable as thought itself, revealing the characters’ emotions with a Freudian depth.

The tale centres on the soldier Wozzeck, his army friends and rivals, his girlfriend and their illegitimate child. Nobody comes out of the story very well (morality is a luxury the poor can’t afford, as Wozzeck tells his commanding officer), but the opera’s unflinching gaze reveals a new and striking kind of inner vision.

Completed in 1922, Wozzeck is the Ulysses of music. Like Joyce’s novel, the narrative is underpinned by a breathtaking level of technical virtuosity, but as TS Eliot opined, “this method was ‘a way of controlling, of ordering, of giving shape and significance to the immense panorama of futility and anarchy which is contemporary history’”.

The first act has five short scenes Berg called Character Studies; the second act is a five-scene “symphony” developing the conflicts between the characters; the third act is a set of “inventions”.

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