Movies: Ursula Hesse von den Steinen

Based on real events and drawing on Georg Büchner's revolutionary play, Alban Berg's Wozzeck turns a grimly tragic narrative of violence and murder into one of the most powerful and original operas of the 20th century. Berg's uncompromising portrayal...

Penderecki's Opera of an entire convent, in the small French village of Loudun, apparently possessed by the devil....