A 1968 production of Hans-Werner Henze's comic opera filmed at Berlin's Deutsche Oper. With the plot centering around how a whole town is deceived into taking a dressed monkey as a young lord, the work features performances from, among others, Edith Mathis, Donald Grobe and Barry McDaniel. Christoph von Dohnányi conducts.
Ingeborg Bachmann
Writer
Ernst Wild
Director
Edith Mathis
Luise
Donald Grobe
Wilhelm
Loren Driscoll
Lord Barrat
Barry McDaniel
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