In an opera by this composer, a fast, out-of-tune polka played by an onstage piano introduces a scene at a bar, and the opening is structured as a Baroque suite to portray an army captain's inability to understand how the poor live.
In an opera by this composer, a fast, out-of-tune polka played by an onstage piano introduces a scene at a bar, and the opening is structured as a Baroque suite to portray an army captain's inability to understand how the poor live. Another of his operas depicts an arrest, trial, and imprisonment with a silent film. This composer wrote an opera whose protagonist sleeps with Alwa (alva) on the same couch where she had killed his father, Dr. Schön (shern), played by the same actor as her own murderer, Jack the Ripper. In another of his operas, the title character drowns himself in the lake next to which he murdered his wife Marie after she was raped by the Drum Major. For 10 points, name this composer of Lulu and Wozzeck (VOT-seck).
In an opera by this composer, a fast, out-of-tune polka played by an onstage piano introduces a scene at a bar, and the opening is structured as a Baroque suite to portray an army captain's inability to understand how the poor live.
Alban Berg [or Alban Maria Johannes Berg]