Play the Film on Instagram: "Stephen Sondheim was no fan of opera, with one shining exception: Alban Berg’s Wozzeck, which he admired for “(saying) just enough when it’s supposed to say it.” The 1925 modernist opera, based on an unfinished 1836 play about a provincial soldier whose jealousy turns murderous, is not exactly easy listening; Alban’s often atonal score foregoes mellifluous, romantic swells in favor of jagged, unsettling violence. Andreas Homoki’s 2015 Zurich staging piles on further