The English Cat
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The English Cat (in German, Die englische Katze) is an opera in two acts by Hans Werner Henze to an English libretto by Edward Bond, based on Peines de coeur d'une chatte anglaise by Balzac.
The opera is through-composed, and is set in London in the 1890s.
[edit] Performance history
It was first performed in a German translation at the Württemberg State Theater in Schwetzingen in 1983. The French premiere was at the Opéra-Comique, Paris in 1984. The first performance using the original English text was at Santa Fe on 13 July 1985.
A revised version was performed at Montepulciano in 1990 and this was given in London in 1991
[edit] Sources
The English Cat by Andrew Clements, in 'The New Grove Dictionary of Opera', ed. Stanley Sadie (London, 1992) ISBN 0-333-73432-7
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