List of stage and broadcast works by Sutermeister

This is a complete list of the stage and broadcast works of the Swiss composer Heinrich Sutermeister (1910–1995).

Sutermeister was notable as a pioneer of radio and television opera. He composed three works for radio and three for television, as well as eight conventional operas, a monodrama and a ballet.

List

Title	Genre	Sub­divisions	Libretto	Première date	Place, theatre
schwarzeDie schwarze Spinne	radio opera	1 act	RöslerAlbert Rösler, after Jeremias Gotthelf's Die schwarze Spinne	1936-10-1515 October 1936	Radio Bern
Romeo und Julia	opera	2 acts	Sutermeister, HSutermeister, after William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet	1940-04-1313 April 1940	Dresden, Staatsoper
ZauberinselDie Zauberinsel	opera	2 acts	Sutermeister, HSutermeister, after Shakespeare's The Tempest	1942-10-3030 October 1942	Dresden, Staatsoper
Niobe	monodrama	2 acts	Sutermeister, PPeter Sutermeister	1946-06-2222 June 1946	Zurich
Raskolnikoff	opera	2 acts	Sutermeister, PPeter Sutermeister, after Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment	1948-10-1414 October 1948	Stockholm
Fingerhütchen	radio ballad	1 act	Sutermeister, HSutermeister, after Conrad Ferdinand Meyer	1950-02-12-112 February 1950	Berlin
FusseDie Füsse im Feuer	radio ballad	1 act	Sutermeister, HSutermeister, after Conrad Ferdinand Meyer's ballad Die Füße im Feuer	1950-02-12-212 February 1950	Berlin
roteDer rote Stiefel	opera	2 acts	Sutermeister, HSutermeister, after Wilhelm Hauff	1951-11-2222 November 1951	Stockholm
Max und Moritz	4 burleske Tanzszenen (ballet)		Buschafter Wilhelm Busch's Max and Moritz	1951-99-991951	Radio Bern
theatreLe théâtre du monde	opera		JeanneretEdmond Jeanneret, after Pedro Calderón de la Barca's El gran teatro del mundo	1957-00-001957	Neuchâtel
Titus Feuerfuchs oder Die Liebe, Tücke und Perücke	opera	2 acts	Sutermeister, HSutermeister, after Johann Nestroy's Der Talisman	1958-04-1414 April 1958	Basel
Seraphine (Die stümme Apothekerin)	television opera	1 act	Sutermeister, HSutermeister, after François Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel	1959-06-1010 June 1959	Swiss Television
GespenstDas Gespenst von Canterville	television opera	1 act	Sutermeister, HSutermeister, after Oscar Wilde's The Canterville Ghost	1964-09-066 September 1964	Mainz, ZDF
Madame Bovary	opera	2 acts	Sutermeister, HSutermeister, after Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary	1967-05-2626 May 1967	Zurich
FlaschenteufelDas Flaschenteufel	television opera		WeibelKurt Weibel, after Robert Louis Stevenson's The Bottle Imp	1971-00-001971	Mainz, ZDF
roiLe roi Bérenger	opera	prologue and 18 scenes	Sutermeister, HSutermeister, after Eugène Ionesco's Le roi se meurt	1985-07-2222 July 1985	Munich

References

Sources

• Levi, Erik (1992), 'Sutermeister, Heinrich' in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London) ISBN 0-333-73432-7
• Operone page, accessed 6 April 2011