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William Kentridge's production of Berg’s Wozzeck has it all: wonderfully imaginative and disturbing designs, terrific acting and singing plus fabulous orchestral playing. 

William Kentridge's film, a patchwork collage depicting Shostakovich's complicated relationship with Stalin, is played as film score to his Tenth Symphony at the Southbank's genre-crossing Multitudes festival. 

Despite theatrical drawbacks, this Wozzeck is heartily recommended due to Yannick Nézet-Séguin's staggering understanding of all facets of Berg's score.

Kentridge’s use of video technology creates another, highly complex, visual score next to Berg’s sonic one.

A skilfully constructed production, and one that plays with the our perspectives. Whether the images are flashbacks from a war-troubled Wozzeck or a Büchner-esque portent of the horrors to come is left for the audience to decide.

William Kentridge's Lulu for ENO is easier to admire than it is to love. But if you want to be challenged dramatically, this is the opera to do it.

In addition to incorporating twelve-tone rows for each character and within larger musical units like canons and chorales, the entirety of the opera itself is palindromic in structure, with performers whose characters died gruesome deaths during the first act returning as new characters in the third.

William Kentridge’s chamber opera Refuse the Hour emerged amid a hurricane of clashing out-of-sync metronomes, frenetic choreography, African drumming, brass glissandi, and sound-making contraptions. 

A memorable Winterreise at the Chigiana International Festival, Siena. 

The child-woman Lulu is a reflective receptacle for desire in Dutch National Opera’s extraordinary filmic production.

Pianist Markus Hinterhäuser’s brilliantly curated Winterreise juxtaposes the devastating interpretative powers of baritone Matthias Goerne with captivating animated images by William Kentridge.

Shostakovich's strange opera was reprised at the Met for the 2013 season and makes for excellent excitement. Somehow, the absurdities of the story, music, and production unite to create an experience that is just absurd enough to work.