Venus und Adonis

For other uses, see Venus and Adonis.

Hans Werner Henze

Operas 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) Gisela! (2010)

Venus und Adonis is a one-act opera by Hans Werner Henze with a German libretto by Hans-Ulrich Treichel, after the poem by William Shakespeare. The work uses singers and dancers.

It was first performed by the Bavarian State Opera in Munich on 11 January 1997 (Chōki 1997, 18). The American première was at the Santa Fe Opera in August 2000, and the same production was used for the Canadian première, which took place in Toronto in 2001 (Brockmeier 2003). The Japanese premiere was given in concert form in Tokyo on 11 January 2001.^[1]

Roles

Role	Voice type	Premiere cast, 11 January 1997 (Conductor: Markus Stenz)
Clemente	tenor	Chris Merritt
Heldendarsteller	baritone	Ekkehard Wlaschiha
Primadonna	soprano	Nadine Secunde
Madrigalist	baritone

References

Notes

↑ Notice of Japanese premiere in Opera japonica, accessed 1 May 2008 Archived March 27, 2008 at the Wayback Machine

Sources

Amadeus Almanac, accessed 26 July 2015
Brockmeier, Jens. 2003. "Mythische Imagination in der Musik Hans Werner Henzes" [Mythical imagination in the music of Hans Werner Henze]. In Hans Werner Henze: Die Vorträge des internationalen Henze-Symposions am Musikwissenschaftlichen Institut der Universität Hamburg 28. bis 30. Juni 2001, Hamburger Jahrbuch für Musikwissenschaft 20, edited by Peter Petersen. Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Brussels, New York, Oxford, Vienna: Peter Lang. ISBN 978-3-631-51114-5
Chōki, Seiji [長木誠司]. 1997. "Hentse no shinsaku opera Vinasu to Adonisu shoen" [The première of Henze's new opera Venus und Adonis]. Ongaku geijutsu (March): 18–56.
Konold, Wulf. 1996. "Venus und Adonis: Hans Werner Henzes Komposition eines Mythos". Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 157, no. 4 (July–August): 16–21.
Petersen, Peter. 1999. "Die Oper als Mythos: Venus und Adonis von Hans Werner Henze". In Musik und Mythos, Neue Aspekte der musikalischen Ästhetik 5, edited by Hans Werner Henze and Michael Kerstan, 137–53. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag. ISBN 3-596-13852-3
Treichel, Hans-Ulrich. 1996. "Die Schule des Librettisten". Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 157, no. 4 (July–August): 22–25.

External links

Venus und Adonis, Schott Music

Hans Werner Henze

Operas	Boulevard Solitude (1951) König Hirsch (1955) Der Prinz von Homburg (1958) Elegy for Young Lovers (Elegie für junge Liebende) (1961) The Bassarids (Die Bassariden) (1965) Der junge Lord (1964) El Cimarrón (1971) Der langwierige Weg in die Wohnung der Natascha Ungeheuer (1971) We Come to the River (1976) The English Cat (1983) Das verratene Meer (1989) Venus und Adonis (1995) L'Upupa und der Triumph der Sohnesliebe (2003) Phaedra (2007) Gisela! (2010)

Ballet	Ondine (1957)

Symphonies	No. 1 (Kammerkonzert 05) No. 2 No. 3 No. 4 No. 5 No. 6 No. 7 No. 8 No. 9 No. 10

Film scores	Muriel ou le Temps d'un retour Young Törless The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum

Other compositions	Fantasia for Strings (1966) Das Floß der Medusa (1968) Compases para preguntas ensimismadas (1970) Heliogabalus imperator (1972/86) Tristan (1973) Voices (1973) Royal Winter Music (1976) Five Scenes from the Snow Country (1978) Royal Winter Music (1979) Requiem: 9 geistliche Konzerte (1993) Sebastian im Traum (2004)

Related articles	Literaturoper Moment form Postmodern music

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