"In the pit, Alejo Pérez emphasises the smallest details of this demanding and complex score. He chisels the motifs, makes the architecture perfectly legible (...) and takes up the sound material with full hands to make it more than just a casket for the voices: an additional figure that enters into dialogue with them," enthuses Diapason magazine about Alejo Pérez's conducting. Both the staging and the musical power of the performance won over audiences and critics at the premiere on 1 June. "Berg's uncompromising masterpiece is still a real hammer blow today. Simons and Pérez turn it into an insane performance - in every sense of the word," said the daily newspaper De Standaard.
more‘An insane performance’: As the music director of Opera Vlaanderen, Alejo Pérez conducts the new production of Alban Berg's Wozzeck staged by Johan Simons , which after its celebrated premiere will be shown first in Antwerp and then in Ghent until the end of June.
