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 ...

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 ...

Noa Naamat’s clutter-free production reveals the sparse beauty of Hans Werner Henze’s score, with fine singing and playing from the Jette Parker Young Artists and Southbank Sinfonia Taken into the ...

LONDON — “Why don’t they just blow up and disappear? Why don’t they all DIE?” screams the poet Gregor Mittenhofer about the fawning creatures that surround him in Hans Werner Henze’s opera “Elegy for ...

Hans Werner Henze was one of the pre-eminent composers of the 20th century. Over his 60-year career he wrote a wide range of music, including opera, ballet, film scores and ten symphonies. Defying ...

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 ...