Venus und Adonis

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.

Venus und Adonis
Opera by Hans Werner Henze
The composer in 1960
LibrettistHans-Ulrich Treichel
LanguageGerman
Based onShakespeare's "Venus and Adonis"
Premiere
11 January 1997 (1997-01-11)
Bavarian State Opera, Munich

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, staged by Alfred Kirchner, 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

  1. 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.
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