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Das verratene Meer

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Translation
  
The Betrayed Sea

First performance
  
5 May 1990

Librettist
  
Hans-Ulrich Treichel

Written
  
1989

Composer
  
Hans Werner Henze

Language
  
German

Das verratene Meer

Based on
  
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima

Premiere
  
5 May 1990 (1990-05-05) Deutsche Oper, Berlin

Similar
  
Der junge Lord, König Hirsch, The English Cat, Boulevard Solitude, The Bassarids

Das verratene Meer (The Betrayed Sea) is an opera in two parts and 14 scenes, with music by Hans Werner Henze to a German libretto by Hans-Ulrich Treichel, after Yukio Mishima's novel The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea. Composed between 1986 and 1989, it was Henze's 9th opera, his third that he wrote for the Deutsche Oper in Berlin.

Contents

Performance history

It was first performed at the Deutsche Oper, Berlin on 5 May 1990, when it was conducted by Markus Stenz and produced by Götz Friedrich. The US premiere was at San Francisco Opera on 8 November 1991.

Synopsis

Part I: Summer

  • Scene 1 – Fusako's house
  • Scene 2 – An abandoned warehouse
  • Scene 3 – A park on a hill above the sea
  • Scene 4 – Fusako's house
  • Scene 5 – The warehouse
  • Scene 6 – The park
  • Scene 7 – On the pier in the harbour
  • Scene 8 – The warehouse

    • Part II: Winter

  • Scene 9 – The park
  • Scene 10 – The warehouse
  • Scene 11 – Fusako's house
  • Scene 12 – The warehouse
  • Scene 13 – Fusako's boutique
  • Scene 14 – The warehouse

    • References

    Das verratene Meer Wikipedia
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