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Cristóbal Halffter was in Vienna this week to talk about his forthcoming opera Die Schachnovelle (The Chess Story).
Pictured are Halffter and the opera’s librettist, Wolfgang Haendeler.
Die Schachnovelle, based on Stefan Zweig’s novel of the same name, opens at the Kiel Opera in May 2013.