Boulevard Solitude
Lyric drama in seven tableaux by Hans Werner Henze / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Boulevard Solitude is a Lyrisches Drama (lyric drama) or opera in one act by Hans Werner Henze to a German libretto by Grete Weil after the play by Walter Jockisch, in its turn a modern retelling of Abbé Prévost's 1731 novel Manon Lescaut. The piece is a reworking of the Manon Lescaut story, already adapted operatically by Auber, Massenet and Puccini, and here relocated to Paris after World War II where, as is noted in Grove, the focus of the story moves away from Manon and towards Armand des Grieux.[1] It became Henze's first fully-fledged opera.[1] The work stands out for its strong jazz influences, from a composer who had hitherto been associated with twelve-tone technique.
Boulevard Solitude | |
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Lyrisches Drama by Hans Werner Henze | |
Librettist | Grete Weil |
Language | German |
Based on | Abbé Prévost's Manon Lescaut |
Premiere |
The premiere was given on 17 February 1952, at the Landestheater Hannover.