Wintermärchen

Wintermärchen is an opera by Philippe Boesmans to a libretto by Luc Bondy and Marie-Louise Bischofberger [de] after Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale.

Now assisted by the writer Marie-Louise Bischofberger [de], Boesmans and Bondy created Wintermärchen after Shakespeare's play The Winter's Tale.

[2] The premiere on 10 December 1999 at La Monnaie was staged by Bondy on a set by Erich Wonder, conducted by Antonio Pappano and choreographed by Lucinda Childs.

[9] The libretto stays close to Shakespeare's play, and is "skilfully abbreviated and adapted", according to one reviewer, but because "neither [Boesmans nor Bondy] could bear to cut Shakespeare's original", they wrote the Sicilian scenes mostly in German, a language in which both librettist and composer were fluent.

[3] They invented the role of Green, who personifies Time and is a Shakespearean jester holding the scenes together.