FROM THURSDAY 26/5 ON SUNDAY 5/6
ARTS. Professor Lopez Piñero, 1
Les Arts closes its lyrical season with a flourish by making a technical display that has been quite a challenge due to having to fit in and coordinate a cast of twelve singers, numerous figuration, choir, coro, large orchestra in the pit and three different groups of musicians on stage. Wozzeck is an opera of social denunciation and psycho-medical overtones premiered by Alban Berg in 1925. It is based on the true story of a soldier told in fifteen scenes that narrate the process of destruction of the protagonist. Visually impressive and loaded with symbolism, the opera crudely portrays the authentic reality of man, their poverty, misunderstanding and exploitation suffered. Swedish baritone Peter Mattei (which debuts at Les Arts), aborda por segunda vez el complejo rol de Wozzeck tras su elogiada interpretación en el Metropolitan de Nueva York. Tendrá como compañeros de reparto a la soprano holandesa Eva-Maria Westbroek (recordada por su Sieglinde junto a Plácido Domingo en Les Arts) y al tenor Christopher Ventris, protagonista de las funciones del Parsifal que dirigió Lorin Maazel en 2008. El complicado reto musical y teatral será asumido por el maestro James Gaffigan desde el foso y por el director de escena alemán Andreas Kriegenburg. AU
