28 Feb 2006
Wozzeck, Royal Opera House, London
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/657f30a8-a881-11da-aeeb-0000779e2340.html
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A musical challenge to our view of the past
https://vimeo.com/operarara/how-to-rescue-an-opera
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/657f30a8-a881-11da-aeeb-0000779e2340.html
(Photo: Bill Cooper)
By Richard Fairman [Financial Times, 28 February 2006]
The moral comes across loud and clear: this Wozzeck is a living experiment in how low a human being can fall. He ends his days drowned in a tank of water like one of the specimens in the doctor’s laboratory – or is he pickled in his own juices like a Damien Hirst sculpture?