for a more beautiful and liberated world of the future ("eine zukünftige schönere, befreite Welt"). Beginning like a fairy tale, the action moves to analogies with present-day situations and looks at the future. Reviewer Hubert Culot summarises: Recording A studio recording of a shortened version was made in 1978, with Peter Gülke conducting the Rundfunk-Symphonie-Orchester Leipzig, with soloists Jürgen Freier as the Schuhu, Helga Termer as the Princess, Hans-Joachim Hegewald as narrator, and many others, by the label Berlin Classics Nova 0013012BC. The scenes also appeared on volume 1 of a collection Neue Musik in der DDR (New music in the GDR), which was reissued in 2002. References Literature Zimmermann, Udo (1977). Der Schuhu und die fliegende Prinzessin. Oper in drei Abteilungen. Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig (Libretto). External links Abbildungen und Autographen der Oper SLUB Dresden Manfred Rückert: Detaillierte Inhaltsangabe nach dem Klavierauszug der Oper im Tamino Klassikforum Der Schuhu und die fliegende Prinzessin. In: Reclams Opernlexikon (= . Band 52). Philipp Reclam jun. bei Directmedia, Berlin 2001, p. 2326. Operas German-language operas 1976 operas Operas by Udo Zimmermann