演出简介 'Der Prinz von Homburg'

Opera in three acts (1960)

Music by Hans Werner Henze
Libretto by Ingeborg Bachmann after the play by Heinrich von Kleist

Conductor: Marc Albrecht
Director: Christof Loy
Wiener Symphoniker

Only a few years following the publication in 1811 of Heinrich von Kleist’s play Prinz Friedrich von Homburg, first efforts were made to set it to music. Some 150 years later, Hans Werner Henze, one of the foremost German opera composers of the present day, was looking for suitable material for an opera and chose this story of the legendary officer and dreamer. “I was looking for a language that would force my music to perform new things when combined with it, a language that my music was aiming at,” says Henze, “and what I found was the Prinz.”