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Title: Hans Werner Henze
Review: Hans Werner Henze is not popular with music critics because he refused to join a 100-year-old avant-garde (I always thought of avant-garde as rebel youth, but now when a music critic says avan-garde he/she conjures in me the figure of an old, white-haired gentleman walking with a cane). And I like Henze for his independence. But l'Upupa is not one of his best operas,it is as crazy as The Love for Three Oranges without having that opera's irresistible music. If you wish to know Henze, I suggest Der Junge Lord or, even better, Boulevard Solitude, which, in my opinion, is a masterpiece by any standard.
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