List of Works

1943 to 2012

Boulevard Solitude

Lyrical drama in seven scenes

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

Year of composition 1951
Duration 82 minutes

Boulevard Solitude

A Country Doctor (Ein Landarzt)

Opera in one act

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)

Year of…

A Country Doctor (Ein Landarzt)

Don Chisciotte della Mancia

Comic opera by Giovanni Battista Lorenzi and Giovanni Paisiello (1769)

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

Year of composition 197…

Don Chisciotte della Mancia

Elegy for Young Lovers (Elegie für junge Liebende)

Opera in three acts by Wystan Hugh Auden and Chester Kallman

Commissioned by Süddeutscher Rundfunk

(French by Irène Aitoff)

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

Dedicated to…

Elegy for Young Lovers (Elegie für junge Liebende)

The End of a World (Das Ende einer Welt)

Opera buffa in one act by Wolfgang Hildesheimer

Adaption for theatre of the radio opera of the same name

English by Wesley Balk

Year of composition 1964
Duration 40 minutes

Dedicated to Ernst…

The End of a World (Das Ende einer Welt)

The English Cat

A story for singers and instrumentalists by Edward Bond

Commissioned by the Süddeutscher Rundfunk and the Württemberg State Theatre Stuttgart

Period of composition 1980-83
Revised version 1990
Duration 130…

The English Cat

Gisela! oder: Die merk- und denkwürdigen Wege des Glücks

music theatre for singers, mimes, small mixed chorus and instruments

Libretto by Hans Werner Henze, Christian Lehnert and Michael Kerstan

in two parts

World premiere produced by the RuhrTriennale
Co-commissioned by…

Gisela! oder: Die merk- und denkwürdigen Wege des Glücks

Gogo No Eiko

Music drama in to acts by Hans-Ulrich Treichel. Based on the novel „Gogo No Eiko“ (The sailor who fell from grace with the sea) by Yukio Mishima

in Japanese language

Revision 2003
Revision 2005
Revision 2010

Duration 110 minutes

Gogo No Eiko

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

Music by Hans Werner Henze and COOPERATIVA MARZOCCO 75: Richard Blackford • Henning Brauel • Peter Maxwell Davies • Michael Denhoff • Niels Frédéric…

The Hot Furnace (Der heiße Ofen)

The Judgement of Calliope

A pastoral by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman

Year of composition 1964
Revised version 1991
Duration 16 minutes

The Judgement of Calliope

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