Alban Berg 's opera is a LIVE sinister tale of love, lust, jealousy and revenge. The composer wrote his own libretto after
Georg Buchner 's unfinished play Woyzeck. The story centres on a soldier,
Wozzeck, and his common-law wife, Marie. She lusts after a drum major, though she feels huge pangs of guilt. Wozzeck discovers he has been deceived and fights the drum major before turning his violence on Marie. stabbing her to death.
Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, New York, conductor James Levine
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