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…

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

Year of composition 1964
Duration 50 minutes

For Rudolf Nurejew

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

Choreographic poem

Commissioned by the RIAS Berlin

Year of composition 1950
Revision 1990
Duration 18 minutes

Dedicated to Boris Blacher