marry Badi'aet el-Hosn, however, until he completes one more quest. The opera leaves unresolved the question of whether Al Kasim and Badi'aet el-Hosn are united at the end. Review The reviewer of The Times stated: "The hot ticket at this year’s Salzburg Festival is not one of the three Mozart opera productions, but the world premiere production of Hans Werner Henze’s newest stage-work L’Upupa und der Triumph der Sohnesliebe (The Hoopoe and the Triumph of Filial Love)." and continued: "This action-packed scenario might seem complex, but it emerges in a production of magical simplicity and ravishing visual beauty by the stage director, Dieter Dorn and set and costume designer, Jürgen Rose with a spell-binding clarity. A clarity which Henze also achieves in what must be his richest and most entrancing opera score to date." Recording There is a DVD of the original 2003 Salzburg production with Matthias Goerne, Laura Aikin, John Mark Ainsley, Alfred Muff, and Markus Stenz conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and the Vienna State Opera Chorus (EuroArts 2053929). See also The Golden Bird (German fairy tale) The Bird 'Grip' (Swedish fairy tale) The Greek Princess and the Young Gardener (Irish fairy tale) Tsarevitch Ivan, the Firebird and the Gray Wolf (Russian fairy tale) How Ian Direach got the Blue Falcon (Scottish fairy tale) The Little Green Frog (French literary tale) References Notes Sources Henze, Hans Werner, L'Upupa. Nachtstücke aus dem Morgenland. Autobiographische Mitteilungen. Propyläen, Berlin 2003. (This is the second part of Henze’s autobiography. The book contains the libretto of the opera.) External links L'Upupa und der Triumph der Sohnesliebe on the Chester Novello website, synopsis and reviews Operas 2003 operas German-language operas Operas by Hans Werner Henze