Wozzeck

the 1987[^] DVD joined my collection today. Wow!!!

I saw, and enjoyed this version[^] at the National Theatre, St Kilda, Melbourne sometime in 1976. That version was a filmic version, in the sense that it was shot as a movie with the actors singing. The version I bought today is a stage version, shot (presumably over more than one performance) at the Vienna Opera house. So you'd expect that it'd look stagey, which it does. Nonetheless I flinched during the scene where Marie's throat is cut (which may have as much to do with events in Iraq over the last few months as with the opera).

I thoroughly enjoyed it. What more can I ask?