Picasso, Chagall, David Hockney. These three are among the rare visual artists who have made the stage a canvas for visions that bear their stamp yet truly serve the action. To their number add the caustic draftsman and filmmaker William Kentridge, returning to the Met with Berg’s archetypal tragedy of a lowly soldier. —M.G.

Wozzeck, by Alban Berg
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Metropolitan Opera / New York / Music
Metropolitan Opera / New York / Music
A scene from Berg’s “Wozzeck.” Photo: Ruth Walz / Salzburg Festival.
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