This is a complete list of the stage and broadcast works of the Swiss composer Heinrich Sutermeister (1910–1995).

Sutermeister was notable as a pioneer of radio and television opera. He composed three works for radio and three for television, as well as eight conventional operas, a monodrama and a ballet.

List TitleGenreSub­divisionsLibrettoPremière datePlace, theatreDie schwarze Spinne radio opera 1 act Albert Rösler, after Jeremias Gotthelf's Die schwarze Spinne 15 October 1936 Radio Bern Romeo und Julia opera 2 acts Sutermeister, after William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet 13 April 1940 Dresden, StaatsoperDie Zauberinsel opera 2 acts Sutermeister, after Shakespeare's The Tempest 30 October 1942 Dresden, Staatsoper Niobe monodrama 2 acts Peter Sutermeister 22 June 1946 Zurich Raskolnikoff opera 2 acts Peter Sutermeister, after Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment 14 October 1948 Stockholm Fingerhütchen radio ballad 1 act Sutermeister, after Conrad Ferdinand Meyer 12 February 1950 BerlinDie Füsse im Feuer radio ballad 1 act Sutermeister, after Conrad Ferdinand Meyer's ballad Die Füße im Feuer 12 February 1950 BerlinDer rote Stiefel opera 2 acts Sutermeister, after Wilhelm Hauff Stockholm Max und Moritz 4 burleske Tanzszenen (ballet) after Wilhelm Busch's Max and Moritz 1951 Radio BernLe théâtre du monde opera Edmond Jeanneret, after Pedro Calderón de la Barca's El gran teatro del mundo 1957 Neuchâtel Titus Feuerfuchs oder Die Liebe, Tücke und Perücke opera 2 acts Sutermeister, after Johann Nestroy's Der Talisman 14 April 1958 Basel Seraphine (Die stümme Apothekerin) television opera 1 act Sutermeister, after François Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel 10 June 1959 Swiss Television television opera 1 act Sutermeister, after Oscar Wilde's The Canterville Ghost 6 September 1964 Mainz, ZDF Madame Bovary opera 2 acts Sutermeister, after Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary 26 May 1967 ZurichDas Flaschenteufel television opera Kurt Weibel, after Robert Louis Stevenson's The Bottle Imp 1971 Mainz, ZDFLe roi Bérenger opera prologue and 18 scenes Sutermeister, after Eugène Ionesco's Le roi se meurt 22 July 1985 Munich

References

Sources Levi, Erik (1992), 'Sutermeister, Heinrich' in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London) Operone page, accessed 6 April 2011