Die Heimkehr
(The Homecoming / Le Retour) (1954, rev.1956)Opera in one act
Duration: 60'
Music Text
Libretto by Karl Heinrich Ruppel after Guy de Maupassant. French translation by Claude Rostand (G,F)
Scoring
2S,dramA,2lyrT,BBar,speaker; chorus;
1(=picc).1.2(II=bcl).1-2.2.1.0-timp.perc-pft-cel-strings
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Publisher
Boosey & Hawkes / Bote & Bock
Territory
This work is available from Boosey & Hawkes
for the world.
Availability
World Premiere
17/06/1954
Frankfurt a.M.
Hessischer Rundfunk
World stage premiere
09/11/1954
Dusseldorf
Unknown
World premiere of version
23/01/1956
Hamburg
Hamburg
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