"Man is an abyss, it makes you dizzy when you look down."
With incomparably stirring, moving music, Alban Berg focuses on the inner life of a person who is neither a hero, nor a privileged person, nor a chosen one: the penniless soldier Wozzeck could hardly be worse off. Derided, mistreated and abused by society, he barely has enough to feed Marie and their illegitimate child. The progressive deterioration of his physical and mental health leads to catastrophe.

Wozzeck

Staatstheater Darmstadt

Aux armes! Aux armes! – To arms! The performance of Daniel Auber's "La muette de Portici" in August 1830 at the Brussels Opera House so enraged the audience that they rose up, stormed out of the theater and started a revolution that led to the founding of the Belgian state.

The Mute of Portici (La Muette de Portici)

It all begins at sea: The knight Tristan takes the Irish princess Isolde as an unwilling bride to his uncle, the king of the victorious power Cornwall. Humiliated and tormented by unspeakable feelings for each other, a death potion is supposed to end both of their lives before the ship docks in Cornwall. But unknowingly, instead of the poison, they take a love potion that changes everything: Tristan and Isolde plunge into an unstoppable affair that consumes their entire existence. The insatiable desire for each other leads to an obsessive longing for death in a mutual love death.

Matthew Vickers

Events

Past events

May 17 - Jul 3, 2025

Wozzeck · Staatstheater Darmstadt

Apr 26 - Jun 27, 2025

The Mute of Portici (La Muette de Portici) · Staatstheater Darmstadt

Future and recently performed repertoire

Drum Major in Wozzeck by Berg

Staatstheater Darmstadt

Melot in Tristan and Isolde by Wagner

Staatstheater Darmstadt

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