Venus und Adonis

Venus und Adonis
Opera by Hans Werner Henze
Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F008277-0008, Köln, Schloss Brühl, Meisterkurse Musik.jpg
The composer in 1960
LibrettistHans-Ulrich Treichel
LanguageGerman
Based onShakespeare's "Venus and Adonis"
Premiere
11 January 1997 (1997-01-11)

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, 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 (Schott n.d.).

Roles

Roles, voice types, premiere cast
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

Source: (Casaglia 2005)


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