König Hirsch

König Hirsch
Il re cervo
Opera by Hans Werner Henze
The composer in 1960
TranslationThe Stag King
LibrettistHeinz von Cramer
LanguageGerman
Based onIl re cervo by Carlo Gozzi
Premiere
23 September 1956 (1956-09-23)
Theater des Westens, Berlin

König Hirsch (in English, The Stag King) is an opera in three acts by Hans Werner Henze to a German libretto by Heinz von Cramer after Il re cervo, a theatrical fable (1762) by Carlo Gozzi. He revised it as Il re cervo, premiered in 1963 at the Staatstheater Kassel.

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