Der Prinz von Homburg
Music by Hans Werner Henze · premiered 1960 · at Hamburg State Opera
Der Prinz von Homburg (The Prince of Homburg) is a German-language opera in three acts by Hans Werner Henze with a libretto by Ingeborg Bachmann (1926–1973).
It was completed in 1958 but premiered on 22 May 1960 in Hamburg.
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About the Composer
Hans Werner Henze (1 July 1926 – 27 October 2012) was a German composer. His large oeuvre is extremely varied in style, having been influenced by serialism, atonality, Neoclassicism, Italian music, Arabic music and jazz, as well as traditional schools of German composition. In particular, his stage works reflect "his consistent cultivation of music for the theatre throughout his life". Henze was also known for his political convictions. He left Germany for Italy in 1953 because of a perceived intolerance towards his leftist politics and homosexuality. Late in life he lived in the village of Marino in the central Italian region of Lazio, and in his final years still travelled extensively, in…
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Other Operas by Hans Werner Henze
- Der langwierige Weg in die Wohnung der Natascha Ungeheuer
- Elegy for Young Lovers
- Gisela!
- Boulevard Solitude (1731)
- König Hirsch (1762)
- Der junge Lord (1827)
- Ein Landarzt (1917)
- Das verratene Meer (1986)