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

Period of…

Freely reconstructed by Hans Werner Henze

Commissioned by the Salzburger Festspiele

Year of composition 1981
Duration 180 minutes

To Franco Serpa…

Show for 17
Poem by Gastón Salvatore (English by Christopher Keene)

Year of composition 1971
Duration 55 minutes

I. Planimetry
II. Attempts at…

Commissioned by the Salzburger Festspiele

Period of composition 1964-65
Revised version 1992
Duration 120 minutes

Libretto by the composer
A German comedy in eleven tableaux from the Arabian
Commissioned by the Salzburg Festival

Period of composition 1999-2003
Durati…

Libretto by Hans-Ulrich Treichel

Commissioned by the Bayerische Staatsoper

Period of composition 1993-95
Duration 70 minutes

Commissioned by the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London

Period of composition 1974-76
Duration 120 minutes

Dedicated to Michele Risso

after a parable from “The Sheik of Alexandria and his Slaves” by Wilhelm Hauff

(English by Eugene Walter)

Commissioned by the Deutsche Oper Berlin

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