Venus and Adonis (Venus und Adonis)

World premiere: 11. January 1997

Munich · Bayerische Staatsoper

Production Pierre Audi
Design Chloë Obolensky
Conductor Markus Stenz

Three concert singers come together in a strong and erotic conflict. The climax of their emotional outbursts is always taken up and continued by their dancing doubles, who carry on the action under the names of Venus, Adonis and Mars, until an éclat occurs, and breaks up the form of the whole work.

Hans Werner Henze

Orchestra I “Venus”

Orchestra II „Adonis“

Orchestra III “Mars”