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Ein Landarzt (opera)

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transported to the patient's house by the horses but is deeply troubled by having left Rosa in the hands of the boorish stable boy. The young patient, who has a deep wound in his side, begs the doctor to let him die. The boy's family forcibly undress the doctor and make him lie in the boy's bed, threatening to kill him if the boy is not healed. The doctor manages to escape on one of the horses but, as if in a nightmare, finds himself unable to return home and condemned to travel for eternity.
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A country doctor is summoned to a house 10 miles away where a young boy is seriously ill. He asks his maid Rosa to find him a horse, but she returns unsuccessful. A mysterious stable boy appears bringing a team of fine horses and promptly assaults Rosa, kissing and biting her. The doctor is magically
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on 8 June 2015, again in a semi-staged production, with Martin Hässler in the title role and Timothy Redmond conducting the Guildhall Orchestra.
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and chamber orchestra, was premiered by Fischer-Dieskau in a performance in Berlin on 13 October 1965 with Henze conducting the
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was performed in a semi-staged production at London's St. Pancras Arts Festival in 1966. The monodrama was revived by the
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was composed specifically for radio performance and was a commission from the German public radio network
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In the monodrama version the entire story is recounted by the country doctor as if he were hallucinating.
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for baritone and chamber orchestra and as a one-act staged opera. The stage version was premiered by the
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The synopsis is based on Kafka's original story to which the libretto closely adhered.
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The stage version, re-worked from the radio opera by Henze in 1964, premiered at the
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Pipers Enzyklopädie des Musiktheaters: Oper, Operette, Musical, Ballet
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effects removed from the score. This revised version premiered in a
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In 1964, Henze reworked the radio opera version as a vehicle for
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on 30 November 1965 in a double bill with the premiere of his
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Dahlhaus, Carl and Döhring, Sieghart (eds.) (1987). "Henze:
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Der langwierige Weg in die Wohnung der Natascha Ungeheuer
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and was premiered on 19 November 1951 in a broadcast by
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Index

Opera
Hans Werner Henze

Franz Kafka
"Ein Landarzt"
NWDR
Hamburg
Hans Werner Henze
Kafka
"Ein Landarzt"
radio opera
Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk
monodrama
Oper Frankfurt
Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk
Hans Herbert Fiedler
Harry Hermann Spitz
de
NWDR Symphony Orchestra
Prix Italia
RAI
radiophonic
Westdeutscher Rundfunk
Roland Hermann
Markus Stenz
WDR Symphony Orchestra
Das Ende einer Welt
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
baritone
Berlin Philharmonic

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