Ballet Variations (Ballett-Variationen)

Choreographic poem

dedicated to the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin on occasion of it's 75th anniversary

Year of composition 1949
New version 1998
Playing time 16…

Ballet Variations (Ballett-Variationen)

Boulevard Solitude

Lyrical drama in seven scenes

Libretto by Grete Weil
Scenario by Walter Jockisch
(English by Norman Platt)

Year of composition 1951
Duration 82 minutes

Boulevard Solitude

A Country Doctor (Ein Landarzt)

Radio opera based on the novella by Franz Kafka

English by Wesley Balk

Year of composition 1951
Revised version 1994
Duration 25 minutes

Premio RAI in the framework of the Prix Italia 1953

A Country Doctor (Ein Landarzt)

A Country Doctor (Ein Landarzt)

Opera in one act

a word-for-word setting of the story by Franz Kafka (English by Wesley Balk)
New version 1964 (adaptation for theatre of the radio opera)

Year of…

A Country Doctor (Ein Landarzt)

La Cubana or A Life for the Arts (La Cubana oder Ein Leben für die Kunst)

Television opera (vaudeville) in five scenes by Hans Magnus Enzensberger

after themes from the novel “Canción de Rachel” by Miguel Barnet

Scene of action: Havana
Time of action: 1906–1934
Background story: 1959

Commission…

La Cubana or A Life for the Arts (La Cubana oder Ein Leben für die Kunst)

Dancing classes (Tanzstunden)

A trilogy

Le Disperazioni del Signor Pulcinella
Le fils de l'air
Labyrinth

Year of composition 1996
Duration 110 minutes

Dancing classes (Tanzstunden)

Don Chisciotte della Mancia

Comic opera by Giovanni Battista Lorenzi and Giovanni Paisiello (1769)

Newly recounted by Giuseppe Di Leva and Hans Werner Henze, with the collaboration of Henning Brauel
(English by Rodney Blumer)

Year of composition 197…

Don Chisciotte della Mancia

Elegy for Young Lovers (Elegie für junge Liebende)

Opera in three acts by Wystan Hugh Auden and Chester Kallman

Commissioned by Süddeutscher Rundfunk

(French by Irène Aitoff)

Period of composition 1959-61
Revised Version 1987
Duration 150 minutes

Dedicated to…

Elegy for Young Lovers (Elegie für junge Liebende)

The End of a World (Das Ende einer Welt)

Opera buffa in one act by Wolfgang Hildesheimer

Adaption for theatre of the radio opera of the same name

English by Wesley Balk

Year of composition 1964
Duration 40 minutes

Dedicated to Ernst…

The End of a World (Das Ende einer Welt)

The End of a World (Das Ende einer Welt)

Radio opera in two acts with prologue and epilogue

Commissioned by the Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk Hamburg

Libretto by Wolfgang Hildesheimer

Year of composition 1953
Revised version 1993
Duration 40…

The End of a World (Das Ende einer Welt)

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