Schneewittchen (opera)

Schneewittchen
Opera by Heinz Holliger
The composer in 2008
LibrettistHolliger
Based onPoetry by Robert Walser
Premiere
17 October 1998 (1998-10-17)
Zurich Opera House

Schneewittchen (Snow White) is an opera by Heinz Holliger. He wrote the libretto based on a poetic text by Robert Walser in iambic trimeter. The opera received its première on 17 October 1998 at the Zurich Opera House which had commissioned the work. The work is a psychoanalytical reworking of the fairy tale of "Snow White", analysing the complex relationships between the roles. It is not a children's opera.

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