Opera
SKU:
HL.14014797
Composed
by Hans Werner Henze.
Music Sales America.
Opera or Operetta. Score.
Composed 2002. 362 pages.
Chester Music #CH63415.
Published by Chester
Music (HL.14014797).
ISBN 9781844496389.
9.5x13.75x9.74
inches.
The
fifteenth full Opera from
the prolific Hans Werner
Henze, and the first to
feature a self-penned
libretto. After the poems
he wrote for his Songs
from the Arabian, Henze
has produced this unusal
tale through adapting
both Arab and Persian
legends and invoking the
same half-real,
half-imaginary Arabia as
the song cycle. The story
itself is a fairy tale
comedy with much in
common with The Magic
Flute. The orchestral
arrangement is huge,
featuring quadruple wind,
five percussionists and a
part for tape.
