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 ...

Hans Werner Henze, who has died aged 86, created an outstanding body of musical works with theatrical and literary dimensions in the opera house, the concert hall and beyond. German-born, but long ...

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 ...

His opera König Hirsch (King Stag), which in its richness and exoticism widened the gap between him and his avant-garde contemporaries, had its premiere in Berlin in 1956 in a version that was ...