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

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

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

Period of composition 1953-56
Duration 240 minutes

Dedication:
Act I: Sir…

Commissioned by the Schwetzinger Festspiele

Year of composition1951
New version 1996
Duration 24 minutes

(English by Wesley Balk)
One scene

Year of composition 1948
Revised version 1964
Duration 45 minutes

Libretto by Erich Bormann

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

One set

Year of composition 1956
Duration 50 minutes

Dedicated to Jean Babilée

after Aesop’s fables for soloists, speaker, chorus and small orchestra

I. In the first age the frogs dwelt at peace
II. When first had no second,…

Libretto (freely adapted after Molière) by Sergio Sivori
English by David Paul Graham

Commissioned by the Schwetzinger Festspiele

Period of…

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…

(freely adapted from De la Motte-Fouqué)

Commissioned by the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

Period of composition 1956-57
Duration 110 minutes

Wr…