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ONP Bastille, Thursday March 24 2022 Conductor: Susanna Mälkki. Production: William Kentridge with Luc De Wit. Sets: Sabine Theunissen. Costumes: Greta Goiris. Lighting: Urs Schönebaum. Video: Catherine Meyburgh. Wozzeck: Johan Reuter. Tambourmajor: John Daszak. Andres: Matthew Newlin. Hauptmann: Gerhard Siegel. Doktor: Falk Struckmann. Erster Handwerksbursch: Mikhail Timoshenko. Zweiter Handwerksbursch: Tobias Westman. Der Narr: Heinz Göhrig. Marie: Eva‑Maria Westbroek. Margret: Marie-Andrée Bouchard-Lesieur. Ein Soldat: Vincent Morell. Orchestra and Chorus of the Opéra National de Paris. Hauts-de-Seine and Opéra National de Paris Children's Choirs.  Photos : Agathe Poupeney/ONP With Christoph Marthaler's 'old' Paris staging (which I'd gladly have seen again) still in mind alongside unenthusiastic comments from people who'd seen William Kentridge's in New York, I went to this 'new' production here thinking it might be a let-down, but no, it turned o...

ONP Bastille, Monday April 7 2008 Conductor: Sylvain Cambreling. Production: Christoph Marthaler. Sets and costumes: Anna Viebrock. Lighting: Olaf Winter. Wozzeck: Simon Keenlyside. Tambourmajor: Jon Villars. Andres: David Kuebler. Hauptmann: Gerhard Siegel. Doktor: Roland Bracht. Marie: Angela Denoke. Margret: Ursula Hesse von den Steinen. Erster Handwerksbursch: Patrick Schramm. Zweiter Handwerksbursch: Igor Gnidii. Der Narr: John Graham-Hall. Orchestra and Chorus of the Opéra National de Paris. Hauts-de-Seine and Opéra National de Paris children’s choirs. “An arresting vision of Berg’s masterpiece.” “Devastating.” “An infinitely pertinent, sensitive staging.” “A Wozzeck for the annals.” There have been few dissenting voices in the chorus of critical praise for Paris’s new production of Wozzeck – understandably: it has a deluxe cast and the production is a tour de force of minutely detailed direction in a single set. Simon Keenlyside’s debut in the role is everything you’d ex...