All in a spin: Wozzeck in Bremen

By Matthew Rye, 06 March 2016

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Reviewed at Theater am Goetheplatz, Bremen on 4 March 2016

Berg, Wozzeck

Theater Bremen

Markus Poschner, Conductor

Paul-Georg Dittrich, Director

Pia Dederichs, Set Designer, Costume Designer

Nadine Lehner, Marie

Martin Nyvall, Captain

Claudio Otelli, Wozzeck

Christoph Heinrich, Doctor

Anna-Maria Torkel, Margret

Daniel Ratchev, First Apprentice

Jörg Sändig, Second Apprentice

Christian-Andreas Engelhardt, Drum Major

Lena Schmid, Set Designer

Jana Findeklee, Video

Daniel Mayr, Choirmaster / chorus director

Joachim Grindel, Lighting Designer

Ingo Gerlach, Dramaturgy

Alice Meregaglia, Choirmaster / chorus director

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Matthew Rye

Matthew read music at Oxford and worked in music journalism for 30 years as a writer, critic and editor. He wrote numerous programme and CD booklet notes, spent 13 years as a Daily Telegraph critic, worked at BBC Music Magazine and was reviews editor of The Strad. He also wrote for The Wagner Journal and Opera and blogged at ferneklang.blogspot.co.uk. He was general editor of 1001 Classical Recordings You Must Hear Before You Die (Cassell Illustrated, 2007) and was the author of a new series of eBooks, Masterpieces of Music (Erudition).