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

Year of composition 1951
Duration 82 minutes

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…

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

Year of composition 197…

Commissioned by Süddeutscher Rundfunk

(French by Irène Aitoff)

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

Dedicated to…

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…

Commissioned by the Süddeutscher Rundfunk and the Württemberg State Theatre Stuttgart

Period of composition 1980-83
Revised version 1990
Duration 130…

Libretto by Hans Werner Henze, Christian Lehnert and Michael Kerstan

in two parts

World premiere produced by the RuhrTriennale
Co-commissioned by…

in Japanese language

Revision 2003
Revision 2005
Revision 2010

Duration 110 minutes

Music by Hans Werner Henze and COOPERATIVA MARZOCCO 75: Richard Blackford • Henning Brauel • Peter Maxwell Davies • Michael Denhoff • Niels Frédéric…

Year of composition 1964
Revised version 1991
Duration 16 minutes