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Hans Werner Henze

May 2019

  • Hongni Wu (Phaedra) in Phaedra by Hans Werner Henze @ Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House.

    The week in classical: Phaedra; Dido; Hespèrion XXI – review

    Henze’s voluptuous concert opera takes hold in a visceral Royal Opera production. And Dido for generation Z

February 2014

  • la Travaita, Welsh National Opera

    Why does opera like women behaving badly?

    The Welsh National Opera's new season explores opera's fascination with 'fallen women'. But it wasn't just the women who fell, writes artistic director David Pountney

December 2012

  • Music blog
    2012 review: notable deaths in music

    See what the Guardian had to say about over 30 notable musicians who died this year - from Whitney Houston and Adam Yauch to Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Dave Brubeck and Ravi Shankar

November 2012

  • Hans Werner Henze

    Appreciation: The brilliant but bewildering Hans Werner Henze

    Robert Ponsonby writes: I first met Hans Werner Henze in 1970, when he directed his opera Elegy for Young Lovers at the Edinburgh festival

October 2012

  • In praise of … Hans Werner Henze

  • Hans Werner Henze

    A guide to contemporary classical music
    A guide to Hans Werner Henze's music

  • Hans Werner Henze

    Hans Werner Henze obituary

  • Elegy For Young Lovers

    German composer Hans Werner Henze dies age 86

January 2010

  • popstar to operastar

    Nico Muhly; Total Immersion: Hans Werner Henze; Popstar to Operastar; Christopher Nupen season

    Nico Muhly is full of glittering promise, but the jury's still out on Jimmy Osmond in Popstar to Operastar, writes Fiona Maddocks

December 2009

  • phaedra

    Hans Werner Henze: A matter of life and death

    Blighted by illness and personal loss, German composer Hans Werner Henze has bounced back to create a career-defining work with Phaedra, writes Tom Service

September 2009

  • Henze: Symphony No 9 Berlin Radio Chorus & SO/Janowski

    When Hans Werner Henze returned to composing symphonies in 1983 after a 15-year break, his ambitions had shifted significantly, says Andrew Clements

August 2006

  • Six of the best

    Few singers can boast of having a song cycle written for them. Ian Bostridge remembers how cats, a Kenyan island and a faulty metronome contributed to Hans Werner Henze's Sechs Gesänge.

March 2001

  • Pass notes
    Pass notes No 1839

    Hans Werner Henze

November 1999

  • Melodic seduction

    Lyricism, the singing line, has always the vital spark in Hans Werner Henze's music, however much it has shifted its direction and changed its emphasis over half a century of composition, and his work list includes a number of scores especially written for great singers of successive generations. Ian Bostridge is the latest to acquire a bespoke Henze cycle; the 50-minute Six Songs from the Arabian, which Bostridge and the pianist Julius Drake introduced to Britain at the Wigmore Hall on Friday.

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