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

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Incidental music for the play by Aristophanes, translated by Peter Hacks for the staging of Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, for bass, choir, trombone, guitar,…

Opera parody in five acts (fragment)

Text by Giuseppe Patroni-Griffi

Year of composition 1959
Playing time 10 minutes

Commissioned by the Hamburgische Staatsoper

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

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for soprano, baritone, mixed chorus (and nine boy’s voices, soprano/alto) and orchestra (G)
(ger.) Text by Ernst Schnabel

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Music by Peter I. Tschaikowsky (Dornröschen) arranged for small orchestra by Hans Werner Henze

Year of composition 1951
Duration 40 minutes

Ballet by Jean Cocteau (1962)

Commissioned by the Schwetzinger Festspiele

Period of composition 1995-96
Duration 35 minutes

for chamber orchestra

Year of composition 1996 (1949)
Duration 15 minutes

Year of composition 1964
Duration 50 minutes

For Rudolf Nurejew

Year of composition 1952
Duration 17 minutes