The 1996 performance was subsequently released on CD in 2005 coupled with another one-act opera by Henze, Das Ende einer Welt.

This version in English translation as A Country Doctor was performed in a semi-staged production at London's St. Pancras Arts Festival in 1966.

[1] The production was designed and directed by Hans Neugebauer with Ernst Gutstein in the title role and Wolfgang Rennert conducting.

A mysterious stable boy appears bringing a team of fine horses and promptly assaults Rosa, kissing and biting her.

The doctor is magically transported to the patient's house by the horses but is deeply troubled by having left Rosa in the hands of the boorish stable boy.