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Christian Gerhaher as Wozzeck and Brindley Sherratt as the Doctor in Wozzeck
Christian Gerhaher as Wozzeck and Brindley Sherratt as the Doctor in Wozzeck
TRISTRAM KENTON
The Times

Here are some of the best concerts and opera performances our critics have seen in the past few weeks. We’ll update the list each Tuesday, so make sure you save this page. We’ll also point out when you can catch up with further performances or on-demand streams of these events. Feel free to join in the conversation in the comment section at the end with your own recommendations.

This Wozzeck comes soon after Deborah Warner’s Peter Grimes in this house, and it shares that show’s stark vision of the destitute and the marginalised, as well as the director’s minutely calibrated dramaturgy. If the staging is not the “radically new vision” of the opera that Warner says she set out to make, it is as unsparing