"La Cubana" is (nothing but) a vaudeville, and the music for it makes no contribution to the problem of worker's music: from a certain point of view it is 'élitist' (cum grano salis). The standpoint from which I wrote the music is, however, not free from grim dialectic, which perhaps does not matter, as long as listening to and seeing the whole piece is pleasurable. But you should not rank this music with attempts to create art that can be employed in the class struggle. It makes no such claims, it is not so conceived and in any case that kind of thing would be out of place in a vaudeville. (Hans Werner Henze)

Artists

Anja Silja (Rachel) / Berta Drews (Rachel II) / Eberhard Büchner (Eusebio) / Sylvia Anders (Girl) / Brigitte Mira (Ofelia II) / Günter Reich (Don Alfonso) / Trudeliese Schmitt (Lucile) / Charlotte Joeres (Lucile II) / Otto Sander (Yarini) / Eric Vaessen (Senator) / Wilfried Jochens (Rezensent) / Hans Madin (Rezensent II) / William Pearson (Cimarron) / Erwin Schastok (Federico) / Otto Czarski (Kulissenschieber) / Hermann Ebeling (1. Herr, Bettler, Gast) / Ingolf Gorges (2. Herr, Lotot) / Uwe Müller (3. Herr, Gast) / Wolfgang Condrus (Gast, Rezensent) / Ariane Arcoja (Rosita) / Dieter Soltau (Ein Campesino) / Gabriele Binder (Putzfrau) / Christa Wellner (Pianistin) / Ine Kollecker (Zirkusartistin) / Tuula Nienstedt (Komparsin) / Phil Marson (Kellner) / Jan Rainer Bruns (Kulissenschieber) / Niels Roese (Notenschreiber) / Horst Huhn (Campesino) / Florian Giertzuch (Campesino) / Jürgen Stellbrink (2. Stelzenläufer)

Hamburger Chor und Kammerorchester Ensemble Hinz & Kunst Nachf, Jan Latham-König