Hans Werner Henze, born 100 years ago and the son of a Nazi, captured the ambivalence of making art in the shadow of the 20th ...

I am standing outside the German composer Hans Werner Henze's house in Marino, near Rome, looking at his olive grove, an infinity of gnarled branches and leaves that shimmer in the brilliant winter ...

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 ...

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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 ...