Hans Werner Henze: Der Prinz von Homburg

Libretto by Ingeborg Bachmann, after the play by Heinrich von Kleist

Stefan Margita (Friedrich Wilhelm), Helene Schneiderman (The Electress), Vera-Lotte Bocker (Princess Natalie), Robin Adams (Friedrich Artur), Moritz Kallenberg (Count Hohenzollern), Michael Ebbecke (Field Marshall Dorfling), Friedemann Rohlig (Colonel Kottwitz), Johannes Kammler (Sergeant), Staatsoper...

Kimmig’s intriguing modern-day production for Staatsoper Stuttgart sets the drama in an abstract frame that’s at once transparent and opaque...Robin Adams is outstanding as Homburg in an excellent... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 11th Sep 2020
Catalogue No: 2110668
Label: Naxos

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November 2020

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Henze, H: Der Prinz von Homberg

Štefan Margita (tenor), Helene Schneiderman (mezzo-soprano), Vera-Lotte Boecker (soprano), Robin Adams (baritone), Moritz Kallenberg (tenor), Michael Ebbecke (baritone), Friedemann Rohlig (bass), Johannes Kammler (baritone)
Staatsoper Stuttgart
Cornelius Meister

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Der Prinz von Homburg resonates powerfully with Hans Werner Henzes pacifist perspective. The opera is based on a play by Heinrich von Kleist that opposes authority, celebrating a dreamer rather than a classical hero, and individualist freedom rather than militarist nationalism. Ingeborg Bachmanns libretto heightens this message, and Henzes chamber-music setting is at once powerful and unpredictable. This visually stunning production stretches from intimate transparency to dramatic heights, in a critically acclaimed staging by the award-winning director Stephan Kimmig.

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December 2020

Kimmig’s intriguing modern-day production for Staatsoper Stuttgart sets the drama in an abstract frame that’s at once transparent and opaque...Robin Adams is outstanding as Homburg in an excellent cast...Meister makes cogent the luminous score, revised in 1991 with a reduced instrumentation.

November 2020

The Prince is beautifully pitched by Robin Adams as a Schumannlike character...His love interest, largely invented by Bachmann, is Princess Natalie, a high lyric soprano part sung with crystalline control by Vera-Lotte Böcker. In her duets with the Prince and the Elector Henze’s inspiration rises highest, and this staging rises with him: like few post-war composers he could write opera for characters who change over the course of a couple of hours, who know themselves better at the end of it, and we are changed a little for knowing them.

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