Scene photos and video trailer of the Mannheim National Theater

The award “Grifo Poliziano” 2015 was given to the memory of Maestro Hans Werner Henze. This distinction is reserved for personalities committed to Montepulciano's and it's territory's international reputation and who have realized projects promising growth and development. This year the award is an hommage to the founder of the Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte. The director of the Hans Werner Henze Foundation, Dr. Michael Kerstan, participated in the ceremony on Sunday, September 20, 2015 at the Teatro Poliziano to receive the recognition.

The wonderful artistic relationship between Hans Werner Henze and Natascha Ungeheuer had a slightly strange beginning.

In the city of Händel, Halle an der Saale, Henze's late masterpiece about Theseus' wife, who falls unhappily in love with her stepson, will be staged for the seventh time in eight years in March.