The Hot Furnace (Der heiße Ofen)

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1943 to 2012

Music by Hans Werner Henze and COOPERATIVA MARZOCCO 75: Richard Blackford • Henning Brauel • Peter Maxwell Davies • Michael Denhoff • Niels Frédéric Hoffmann • Thomas Jahn • Geoffrey King • Francis Pinto

Year of composition 1975
Playing time full-length

World premiere 18. march 1989

Kassel
Staatstheater

Production Manfred Beilharz
Conductor Alicja Mounk

Three contributions by Hans Werner Henze

Clara’s Song of Understanding
Luigi’s Lament
Finale

Gordon Helpman, scientist and inventor	heldentenor
Theodor Sackelhuber, entrepreneur	basso buffo
Dr. Fritz Dampf, delegate	counter tenor
Fridolin Zupfer, diskjockey	speaker
pop singer	soprano
old pop singer	baritone
young pop singer	tenor
chicken	bass
Klara	mezzo soprano
Molly	coloratura soprano
Emil, worker’s council	lyric tenor
Alex Hüpfer	high tenor
Luigi, immigrant worker	baritone
Dr. Gottlieb Spiess	baritone
news agent	chior

2 flutes	also alto flute, piccolo
2 oboes	also cor anglais
2 clarinets	also clarinet in e flat, bass clarinet
alto saxophone	also soprano saxophone

2 corns
2 trumpets
2 trombones	tenor, bass
1 tuba

Percussion (2 players)	timpani lotos flute flexatone maracas cow bells wood blocks temple blocks 3 tom-toms small drum drums bass drum cymbals Turkish cymbals bells glockenspiel xylophone vibraphone

bass guitar
banjo

e-piano
organ
e-organ

Playbacks	transmission themes, fanfare, ad lib.: pop songs

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Mit der örtlichen Blaskapelle, Montepulciano 1976

Hans Werner Henze founded the Cantiere in 1976 and directed it for five years. With the realisation of joint projects by residents of all ages with internationally renowned artists and young talents, it quickly became one of the most important music festivals in Italy and also in Europe, if the focus is on the educational and social implications.

Publisher: Sikorski, Aufführungsmaterial

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The Hot Furnace (Der heiße Ofen)

Comic opera in 5 acts and 3 entr’actes by Wolfgang Florey using the model by Friedrich Hitzer and Klaus Konjetzki with texts by Thomas Jan, Niels Frédéric Hoffmann and Dieter Süverkrüp

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On the creation of the Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte in Montepulciano

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	info@hans-werner-henze-stiftung.de
	+49 (0) 911 2373862