List of stage and broadcast works by Heinrich Sutermeister
This is a complete list of the stage and broadcast works of the Swiss composer Heinrich Sutermeister (1910–1995).
Sutermeister was notable as a pioneer of radio and television opera. He composed three works for radio and three for television, as well as eight conventional operas, a monodrama and a ballet.
List[]
Title | Genre | Subdivisions | Libretto | Première date | Place, theatre |
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Die schwarze Spinne | radio opera | 1 act | Albert Rösler, after Jeremias Gotthelf's Die schwarze Spinne | 15 October 1936 | Radio Bern |
Romeo und Julia | opera | 2 acts | Sutermeister, after William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet | 13 April 1940 | Dresden, Staatsoper |
Die Zauberinsel | opera | 2 acts | Sutermeister, after Shakespeare's The Tempest | 30 October 1942 | Dresden, Staatsoper |
Niobe | monodrama | 2 acts | Peter Sutermeister | 22 June 1946 | Zurich |
Raskolnikoff | opera | 2 acts | Peter Sutermeister, after Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment | 14 October 1948 | Stockholm |
Fingerhütchen | radio ballad | 1 act | Sutermeister, after Conrad Ferdinand Meyer | 12 February 1950 | Berlin |
Die Füsse im Feuer | radio ballad | 1 act | Sutermeister, after Conrad Ferdinand Meyer's ballad Die Füße im Feuer | 12 February 1950 | Berlin |
Der rote Stiefel | opera | 2 acts | Sutermeister, after Wilhelm Hauff | 22 November 1951 | Stockholm |
Max und Moritz | 4 burleske Tanzszenen (ballet) | after Wilhelm Busch's Max and Moritz | 1951 | Radio Bern | |
Le théâtre du monde | opera | Edmond Jeanneret, after Pedro Calderón de la Barca's El gran teatro del mundo | 1957 | Neuchâtel | |
Titus Feuerfuchs oder Die Liebe, Tücke und Perücke | opera | 2 acts | Sutermeister, after Johann Nestroy's Der Talisman | 14 April 1958 | Basel |
Seraphine (Die stümme Apothekerin) | television opera | 1 act | Sutermeister, after François Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel | 10 June 1959 | Swiss Television |
Das Gespenst von Canterville | television opera | 1 act | Sutermeister, after Oscar Wilde's The Canterville Ghost | 6 September 1964 | Mainz, ZDF |
Madame Bovary | opera | 2 acts | Sutermeister, after Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary | 26 May 1967 | Zurich |
Das Flaschenteufel | television opera | Kurt Weibel, after Robert Louis Stevenson's The Bottle Imp | 1971 | Mainz, ZDF | |
Le roi Bérenger | opera | prologue and 18 scenes | Sutermeister, after Eugène Ionesco's Le roi se meurt | 22 July 1985 | Munich |
References[]
- Sources
- Levi, Erik (1992), 'Sutermeister, Heinrich' in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London) ISBN 0-333-73432-7
- Operone page, accessed 6 April 2011
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- Compositions by Heinrich Sutermeister
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