Henze: Ein Landarzt - Das Ende Einer Welt

In the beginning of the 1950s, Hans Werner Henze wrote two radio operas for the former North West German Radio. The genre was developed around the 1930s and means a form of opera without any visual elements and hence without a stage. Under such circumstances the plot has to reach the listeners’ ears by other means – by making the text exceptionally easy to follow, and by means of acoustic special effects like echo or sound collages.