Karl Amadeus Hartmann: Indeed...?! (Fürwahr...?!)

After “5 short operas (waxworks)”

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

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

Karl Amadeus Hartmann: Indeed...?! (Fürwahr...?!)

King Stag (König Hirsch)

Opera in three acts by Heinz von Cramer after the fairytale of Earl Carlo Gozzi (1772)

(English by Maria Massey Pelikan)
Commissioned by the Städtische Oper Berlin

Period of composition 1953-56
Duration 240 minutes

Dedication:
Act I: Sir…

King Stag (König Hirsch)

The Magic Theatre (Das Wundertheater)

Opera based on an intermezzo by Miguel de Cervantes

(English by Wesley Balk)
One scene

Year of composition 1948
Revised version 1964
Duration 45 minutes

The Magic Theatre (Das Wundertheater)

Karl Amadeus Hartmann: The Man who rose from the Dead (Der Mann, der vom Tode auferstand)

After “5 short operas (waxworks)”

Libretto by Erich Bormann

Period of composition (K.A. Hartmann) 1929-30
Revised version (H.W. Henze) 1988
Duration 12 minutes

Karl Amadeus Hartmann: The Man who rose from the Dead (Der Mann, der vom Tode auferstand)

The Ocean Betrayed (Das verratene Meer)

Music drama in two acts by Hans-Ulrich Treichel

Based on the novel “Gogo No Eiko” (The sailor who fell from grace with the sea) by Yukio Mishima

Commissioned by the Deutsche Oper Berlin

Period of…

The Ocean Betrayed (Das verratene Meer)

Palamedes' Lyre (Die Leier des Palamedes)

Opera about the homonymous play by Erich Jüngst

Year of composition 1943

Palamedes' Lyre (Die Leier des Palamedes)

Phaedra

Concert Opera in two acts

Libretto Christian Lehnert
Bruitage Francesco Antonioni

co-commissioned and co-produced by Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, Berliner Festspiele,…

Phaedra

La piccola Cubana

Vaudeville by Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Vaudeville in five scenes by Hans Magnus Enzensberger

based on themes from the novel "Canción de Rachel" by Miguel Barnet

Arrangement for chamber…

La piccola Cubana

The Power of the Circumstances or: She Didn't Succeed to Convince Him

(La forza delle circostanze ovvera Ella non riusci' a convincerlo)

Opera parody in five acts (fragment)

Text by Giuseppe Patroni-Griffi

Year of composition 1959
Playing time 10 minutes

The Power of the Circumstances or: She Didn't Succeed to Convince Him

The Prince of Homburg (Der Prinz von Homburg)

Opera in three acts (nine scenes) after the play by Heinrich von Kleist

Commissioned by the Hamburgische Staatsoper

Period of composition 1958-59
New orchestration 1991 1991
Duration 130 minutes

Adapted for music by…

The Prince of Homburg (Der Prinz von Homburg)

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