– La Monnaie, City of Brussels

Date: Sunday, 8 November 2026
Time: 15:00
Venue: La Monnaie
Address: 23, rue Léopold
City: City of Brussels
Organisation: La Monnaie/De Munt
Language: German

About this event

When composer Alban Berg saw Georg Büchner’s fragmentary theatre text performed in 1914, it inspired him to create an absolute masterpiece. Raw and unfiltered, Wozzeck shows the dehumanization of a vulnerable individual who craves recognition and connection but is systematically rejected and abused. In this new production, music director Alain Altinoglu and stage director Christophe Coppens delve deeper into the turbulent emotions of the soldier Wozzeck. As a maelstrom of violence and isolation gradually blurs the boundaries between past and present, reality and imagination, his splintered psyche slides towards a single inevitable thought: murder. A century after its 1925 premiere, this haunting work proves that it has lost none of its relevance.