Alban Berg’s “Wozzeck,” which premiered in the shadow of World War I, will break your heart with a score that captures the essence of opera.

The first time was the charm, even if that first time took decades to arrive. Late last year the Houston Symphony earned its first ever Grammy Award nomination for best opera recording with "Berg: ...

A scene from the New York Metropolitan Opera’s production of Alban Berg’s Lulu. (Ken Howard / Metropolitan Opera) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive ...

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 ...

The Royal Opera House’s new production of Alban Berg’s opera was well-timed for Mental Health Awareness Week: in a succession of compact episodes, the work traces the disintegration of a ...

DESPITE my reservations about modern opera, and despite my being unsure whether I actually enjoyed it or not, I cannot deny that this is a remarkable production of a striking opera. The composer Alban ...

NEW YORK — Even Alban Berg was shocked by the success of his opera “Wozzeck” at its 1925 Berlin premiere. The opera after all was written mostly in a freely atonal style, the kind of music that ...

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 ...

Alban Berg’s Lulu is a complex, psychological thriller that became one of the most important and notorious stage works of the 20th century. Berg (1885-1935) adapted from the Lulu plays by German ...