The third time I’ve seen this arresting production since 2002. The story and
music are decidedly mood-altering. Wozzeck is a poor man with a woman and small
son. He is being experimented upon by the doctor and behaves on a somewhat
servile way to the higher-ups of his town. His woman has an affair with a drum
major and rather rubs this in his face. Wozzeck’s mind is becoming more and
more disturbed and he breaks and slits his wife’s throat, then himself drowning
in the pool of bloodied water which to him is a pool of blood. We are left with
the child rocking psychotically on his own. Karita Mattila’s voice was powerful
and engaging – (indeed she was the only thing that seemed to rouse the gent in
the row in front of me from his slumbers!)
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