Das verratene Meer

Das verratene Meer
Opera by Hans Werner Henze
The composer in 1960
Translation	The Betrayed Sea
Librettist	Hans-Ulrich Treichel
Based on	The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima
Premiere	5 May 1990 (1990-05-05) Deutsche Oper, Berlin

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.

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.^[1]

Roles

Role	Voice type	Premiere Cast, 5 May 1990 (Conductor: Markus Stenz)
Fusako Kuroda, a 33-year old widow	soprano	Stephanie Sundine/Beverly Morgan (Ms. Sundine acted while Ms. Morgan sang, due to Ms. Sundine's illness at the time of the premiere)
Noboru, her son aged 13, number 3 in the gang	tenor	Clemens Bieber
Ryuji Tsukazaki, merchant navy officer	baritone	Andreas Schmidt
Ship's mate	bass-baritone
Gang member number 1	baritone	Martin Gantner
Gang member number 2	countertenor
Gang member number 4	baritone
Gang member number 5	bass-baritone

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

Notes

↑ John Rockwell (1984-04-30). "Henze's Setting of Mishima's Sailor". New York Times. Retrieved 2007-09-21.

Sources

Amadeus Almanac, accessed 6 November 2008
Clements, Andrew, "Das verratene Meer", The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London, 1992) ISBN 0-333-73432-7

External links

San Francisco Opera page on Das verratene Meer

Hans Werner Henze

Operas	Boulevard Solitude (1951) König Hirsch (1955) Der Prinz von Homburg (1958) Elegy for Young Lovers (Elegie für junge Liebende) (1961) The Bassarids (Die Bassariden) (1965) Der junge Lord (1964) El Cimarrón (1971) Der langwierige Weg in die Wohnung der Natascha Ungeheuer (1971) We Come to the River (1976) The English Cat (1983) Das verratene Meer (1989) Venus und Adonis (1995) L'Upupa und der Triumph der Sohnesliebe (2003) Phaedra (2007) Gisela! (2010)

Ballet	Ondine (1957)

Symphonies	No. 1 (Kammerkonzert 05) No. 2 No. 3 No. 4 No. 5 No. 6 No. 7 No. 8 No. 9 No. 10

Film scores	Muriel ou le Temps d'un retour Young Törless The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum

Other compositions	Fantasia for Strings (1966) Das Floß der Medusa (1968) Compases para preguntas ensimismadas (1970) Heliogabalus imperator (1972/86) Tristan (1973) Voices (1973) Royal Winter Music (1976) Five Scenes from the Snow Country (1978) Royal Winter Music (1979) Requiem: 9 geistliche Konzerte (1993) Sebastian im Traum (2004)

Related articles	Literaturoper Moment form Postmodern music

List of compositions by Hans Werner Henze Category:Compositions by Hans Werner Henze

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