a word-for-word setting of the story by Franz Kafka (English by Wesley Balk)
New version 1964 (adaptation for theatre of the radio opera)

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

Year of composition 1951
Duration 82 minutes

Newly recounted by Giuseppe Di Leva and Hans Werner Henze, with the collaboration of Henning Brauel
(English by Rodney Blumer)

Year of composition 197…

Commissioned by Süddeutscher Rundfunk

(French by Irène Aitoff)

Period of composition 1959-61
Revised Version 1987
Duration 150 minutes

Dedicated to the…

Libretto by Hans Werner Henze, Christian Lehnert and Michael Kerstan

in two parts

World premiere produced by the RuhrTriennale
Co-commissioned by…

in Japanese language

Revision 2003
Revision 2005
Revision 2010

Duration 110 minutes

Libretto after Gozzi by Heinz von Cramer

Year of composition 1962
Duration 150 minutes

New orchestration and recitatives by Hans Werner Henze (in collaboration with David Paul Graham)
Adapted for the stage by Lorenzo Mariani

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Freely reconstructed by Hans Werner Henze

Commissioned by the Salzburger Festspiele

Year of composition 1981
Duration 180 minutes

To Franco Serpa…

Completed from the sketches and scored by Hans Werner Henze
Libretto by Erich Bormann

Period of composition (K.A. Hartmann) 1929-30
Completed version…