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Opera for a Shattered World
All’s Atonal on the Western Front

This year’s Salzburg Festival performance of Alban Berg’s 1925 opera Wozzeck captures the essence of World War I and the violent potential of mankind’s dehumanizing tendencies.

Published on: November 11, 2017
Carolyn Stewart is the press secretary of the Hudson Institute. The views contained in this article are her own.
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