On 9 February at 17:00, the doors are opening to the exhibition Canti di Colore - i dipinti di Hans Werner Henze - Farbenlieder - die Gemälde Hans Werner Henze at the Goethe House on Rome's Corso.

In November 2017, Kadja Grönke and Michael Zywietz organised a three-day symposium on the "Status and perspectives of musicological homosexuality research". Four lectures focussed on the life and work of Hans Werner Henze.

On 26 July, Elena Minetti and Michael Kerstan will present the 2nd Italian edition of Henze's autobiography, Canti di Viaggio. Una vita, this time in Rimini as part of the Sagra Musicale Malatestiana, the large music festival of Emilia Romagna. Afterwards there will be a performance of El Cimarrón with Italian musicians and the American baritone Nicholas Isherwood.

Five years after Hans Werner Henze's death, a large part of his artwork has been made accessible to the public for the first time. We owe this to the enthusiasm of the Cantiere's artistic director, Roland Böer.

On 28 March, the editors Elena Minetti, Gastón Fournier Facio and Michael Kerstan will present the 2nd Italian edition of Henze's autobiography Canti di Viaggio. Una vita in Milan with a lecture and photo presentation. They had been invited by the Friends of the Teatro alla Scala di Milano, who reside in the spacious villa of Signora Anna Crespi Morbio just behind the opera house, and were attended by an interested and enthusiastic audience.

The the Research Centre for Music and Gender at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Mediasymposium is organising a symposium on 3 February 2017 under the direction of Antje Tumat.entitled “Gesellschaft. Gender. Gesang. Hans Werner Henze's music theatre and The English Cat”.

On 30 September, the DoelenEnsemble performs Henze's Requiem together with the notabu.ensemble neue musik at the Tonhalle in Düsseldorf. The soloists are Bassam Mussad (trumpet) and Maaren van Veen (piano), with Mark-Andreas Schlingensiepen conducting. As an introduction, there will be a conversation between the dramaturge of the Tonhalle, Uwe Sommer, and the managing director of the Hans Werner Henze Foundation, Michael Kerstan.

For the 41st Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte in Montepulciano, Michael Kerstan is organising an exhibition in the lobby of the Teatro Poliziano with 18 stage and costume designs, some of them large-scale and culturally and historically relevant.

To mark the 40th Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte in Montepulciano, the Hans Werner Henze Foundation is organising an exhibition in the fortress of Montepulciano with exhibits from Henze's painting collection.

The Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte Montepulciano is celebrating it’s 40th anniversary and thus his founder, Hans Werner Henze. The unique music festival with its focus on collaboration with youth takes place from July 11 until August 1.