Boulevard Solitude

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Libretto by Grete Weil
Scenario by Walter Jockisch
(English by Norman Platt)

Year of composition 1951
Duration 82 minutes

World premiere 17. february 1952

Hannover · Landestheater

Production Walter Jockisch
Choreography Otto Krüger
Stage and costume design Jean-Pierre Ponnelle
Conductor Johannes Schüler

In 1974 Jean-Pierre Ponnelle and Grete Weil made some changes to the libretto for a production at the Bayerische Staatsoper. These amendments were incorporated by the pub- lishers into the hire material and the new editions of the piano reduction and libretto. For a production by the Hessischer Rundfunk in 1952, I extended Pantomime No. 6 (at the end of the 2nd scene) with an aria. This aria is available on request from the publishers. I used it in my 1954 productions of “Boulevard” in Naples and Rome.

Hans Werner Henze

Manon Lescaut	soprano leggero
Armand des Grieux	tenore lirico	a student
Lilaque père	tenore buffo	a wealthy cavalier
Lescaut	baritono lirico	Manon’s brother
Francis	baritono	a friend of Armand
Lilaque fils	basso
	danzatori	two cocaine addicts
	ballerino	cigarette boy
	ballerina	flower girl
	danzatori e mimi	paper boys, beggars, tarts, policemen, male and female students, travellers

2 Flauti	2° anche Ottavino
1 Oboe
1 Corno inglese
1 Clarinetto
1 Clarinetto basso
2 Fagotti

4 Corni
4 Trombe jazz
3 Tromboni
1 Tuba

Timpani
Percussione	Triangolo Piatti sospesi Tamtam Tomtom 2 Tamburi piccoli Grancassa Claves Maracas Glockenspiel Xilofono Vibrafono Campane tubolari [per 9]
Arpa
Pianoforte
Mandolino
Archi

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Die Vorträge des internationalen Henze-Symposions am Musikwissenschaftlichen Institut der Universität Hamburg. 28. bis 30. Juni 2001

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Portrait, Duisburg, Gebläsehalle, Dezember 2008

When the Ruhr region was chosen as the European Capital of Culture, its artistic director Steven Sloane immediately saw Hans Werner Henze as a musical focus, a world star with roots in the region and an oeuvre that encompasses all musical genres as well as a wide range of opportunities for children, young people and amateurs, and who could thus connect the entire region.

In 1954, the composer experienced his first scandal at the Roman premiere of Boulevard Solitude. The claqueurs had been paid by someone else. And Igor Stravinsky, the greatest living composer at the time, was denied entry to the opera house, the Teatro Costanzi. Here is the excerpt from Henze's autobiography:

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[Translate to Englisch:] Ausschnitt aus einer Aufführung am Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona) 2007

[Translate to Englisch:] Produktion des Royal Opera House Covent Garden (London)

Publisher: Schott Music, Piano score (ger./engl.): ED 6630

Publisher: Schott Music, Full score: BN 3352-90

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