König Hirsch

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Operas by Hans Werner Henze
Boulevard Solitude (1952) König Hirsch (1956) Der Prinz von Homburg (1960) Elegy for Young Lovers (1961) Der junge Lord (1965) The Bassarids (1966) Der langwierige Weg in die Wohnung der Natascha Ungeheuer (1971) We Come to the River (1976) The English Cat (1983) Das verratene Meer (1990) Venus und Adonis (1997) L'Upupa und der Triumph der Sohnesliebe (2003) Phaedra (2007)
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König Hirsch (in English, The Stag King) is an opera in three acts by Hans Werner Henze to an German libretto by Heinz von Cramer after a fable by Carlo Gozzi.

[edit] Performance history

It was first performed at the Städtische Oper, Berlin on 23 September 1956 in an abbreviated form. It was rewritten as Il re cervo, oder Die Irrfahrten der Wahrheit and performed at the Staatstheater, Kassel on 10 March 1963. This version was also produced at the Santa Fe Opera on 4 August 1965. The complete work was given for the first time on 5 May 1985 at the Staatsoper in Stuttgart.