Das verratene Meer

Das verratene Meer
Opera by Hans Werner Henze
The composer in 1960
TranslationThe Betrayed Sea
LibrettistHans-Ulrich Treichel
Based onThe Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
by Yukio Mishima
Premiere
5 May 1990 (1990-05-05)

Das verratene Meer (The Betrayed Sea) is an opera in two parts and 14 scenes, with music by Hans Werner Henze to a German libretto by Hans-Ulrich Treichel, after Yukio Mishima's novel The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (Japanese: 午後の曳航, romanizedGogo no eiko). Composed between 1986 and 1989, it was Henze's ninth opera, his third that he wrote for the Deutsche Oper Berlin.