With its home theater under renovation, the Komische Oper branches out, beginning with Henze’s “The Raft of the Medusa” at Tempelhof Airport. By Zachary Woolfe In Berlin, the Komische Oper is ...

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Henze's artistic credo was that music ought to have something to say about human emotion and to contribute to contemporary society There is a story that Hans Werner Henze reports in his fascinating ...

Hans Werner Henze, a prolific German composer who came of age in the Nazi era and grew estranged from his country while gaining renown for richly imaginative operas and orchestral works, died on ...

PHILADELPHIA - Life was surely imitating art — or at least inspiring it — during the time that Hans Werner Henze worked on his latest opera, "Phaedra." *Billed as $4 plus GST every four weeks. Offer ...

Hans Werner Henze surrounded by the cast of 'Elegy for Young Lovers', with conductor Stefan Blunier and director Fiona Shaw in the foreground After an evening of Birtwistle's The Minotaur, a venerable ...

In his personal life and his music Henze was a natural outsider, but not perhaps a natural rebel. He embraced Communism and campaigned for homosexual causes, yet still accepted patronage from ...

His opera König Hirsch (King Stag), which in its richness and exoticism widened the gap between him and his avant-garde contemporaries, had its premiere in Berlin in 1956 in a version that was ...