This composer's self-stated final opera is about Al Radshi, the Grand Vizier of Manda, the island of the black baboons, who sends his sons out in search of the title golden bird. In this man's adaptation of a Walter Jockisch retelling of an Abbe Prev
This composer's self-stated final opera is about Al Radshi, the Grand Vizier of Manda, the island of the black baboons, who sends his sons out in search of the title golden bird. In this man's adaptation of a Walter Jockisch retelling of an Abbe Prevost work, Armand des Grieux becomes addicted to cocaine and Manon Lescaut is sent to prison after shooting Lilaque, Sr. This composer of The Hoopoe and the Triumph of Filial Love and Boulevard Solitude led the audience in a chant of "Ho, ho, Ho Chi Minh" after police intervened to stop demonstrating anarchists at the premiere of his memorial for Che Guevara, the oratorio The Raft of the Medusa. This composer collaborated with Chester Kallman and W.H. Auden on his two most famous operas, one of which stars the poet Gregor Mittenhofer and the other of which is an adaptation of Euripides's The Bacchae. For 10 points, identify this contemporary leftist German composer of Elegy for Young Lovers and The Bassarids.
This composer's self-stated final opera is about Al Radshi, the Grand Vizier of Manda, the island of the black baboons, who sends his sons out in search of the title golden bird.
Hans Werner Henze