Elegy for Young Lovers

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In the solitude of a mountain hotel, in the face of the deadly glacier ice, everything revolves around a poet prince who - morbidly worried about his inspiration - writes an "Elegy of Lovers": "Essentially it's about the birth of a poem whose development we follow from the first moment of the first idea to the final reading. What happens around this birth process in terms of the grotesque, the ridiculous, the vulgar, the malicious, the mean, serves to question the figure of the artist as hero, this concept of the hero's life, as created in the 19th century and the 20th century has not yet been completely eliminated.” (Henze). The composer and his librettists, the English poets Wystan Hugh Auden and Chester Simon Kallman, dedicated the work “to the memory of Hugo von Hofmannsthal,