Icare

Ballet for Tatjana Gsovsky (sketches)

Icare

The Idiot (Der Idiot)

Mimodrama. Scenes from the novel of the same title by Fyodor M. Dostoyevsky

Based on an idea by Tatjana Gsovsky
Poem (Myshkin’s monologues) by Ingeborg Bachmann (1953)

Year of composition 1952
Revised version1990
Duration 40…

The Idiot (Der Idiot)

In memoriam: The White Rose (In memoriam: Die Weiße Rose)

Double fugue for twelve instruments

Year of composition 1965
Duration 9 minutes

In memoriam: The White Rose (In memoriam: Die Weiße Rose)

The Insurrection of San Nazzaro

Opera for Sicilian puppets

Words by Hans Werner Henze
Music by Jimmy Giuffre and Chico Hamilton

Year of composition 1957

The Insurrection of San Nazzaro

Interludes (Zwischenspiele)

From the opera “The Young Lord”

For orchestra

Year of composition 1964
Duration 15 minutes

I Allegro
II Con spirito
III Largo
IV
Vivace 

Interludes (Zwischenspiele)

Introduction, Theme and Variations (Introduktion, Thema und Variationen)

For violoncello, harp and string orchestra

Year of composition 1992
Duration 10 minutes

Introduction, Theme and Variations (Introduktion, Thema und Variationen)

Karl Amadeus Hartmann: Indeed...?! (Fürwahr...?!)

After “5 short operas (waxworks)”

Completed from the sketches and scored by Hans Werner Henze
Libretto by Erich Bormann

Period of composition (K.A. Hartmann) 1929-30
Completed version

Karl Amadeus Hartmann: Indeed...?! (Fürwahr...?!)

Il Re Cervo or The Vagrancies of Truth (Die Irrfahrten der Wahrheit)

Opera in three acts

Libretto after Gozzi by Heinz von Cramer

Year of composition 1962
Duration 150 minutes

Il Re Cervo or The Vagrancies of Truth (Die Irrfahrten der Wahrheit)

Il Re Teodoro in Venezia

Giovanni Paisiello: Vienna 1784, Based on the heroic comedy in two acts by Giovanni Battista Casti

New orchestration and recitatives by Hans Werner Henze (in collaboration with David Paul Graham)
Adapted for the stage by Lorenzo Mariani

Period of…

Il Re Teodoro in Venezia

Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria

Claudio Monteverdi, Venezia 1641, Poetry by Giacomo Badoaro

Freely reconstructed by Hans Werner Henze

Commissioned by the Salzburger Festspiele

Year of composition 1981
Duration 180 minutes

To Franco Serpa…

Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria

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