Nicholas Lens

Operas

• Costello in limbo (Elizabeth Costello at the gate),^[7][8] opera, world premiere 2028 at La Monnaie with libretto by John M. Coetzee in a staging by Barbora Horáková Joly and Allison Cook as soprano falcon in the title role ^[9]
• Is this the gate?,^[10] chamber opera with libretto by J. M. Coetzee, world premiere at Adelaide Festival, Australia 2024
• L.I.T.A.N.I.E.S, trance-minimal chamber opera with libretto by Nick Cave, written and produced by Nicholas Lens & Nick Cave, release by Deutsche Grammophon 2021^{[11][12][13][14]}
• Shell Shock, opera with libretto by Nick Cave, world premiere on 24 October 2014 at the Royal Theatre of La Monnaie^{[15][16][17][18]}
• Slow Man,^[19][20] opera with libretto by J. M. Coetzee based on his novel Slow Man,^[21] world premiere on 5 July 2012 at the Malta Festival, Grand Theatre, Poznań^{[22][23][24][25][26][27][28]}

Vocal and chamber music

• The Puppet Designer (Der Bashafer fun Marionetn) for baritone and chamber orchestra, live performance at UNESCO (The Power of Culture, Festival 18 June 1996), published by Schott Music 2006^[29]
• Wired, theatrical chamber music for harp and soprano, premiered at Beijing, China on 5 December 2006.^[2]
• The trilogy The Accacha Chronicles (2005),^[30][31] for soprano, tenor, countertenor, mezzo-soprano, baritone, bass, male actor, small choir, mixed choir and chamber orchestra, Sony BMG 82876 66239 2, published by Schott Music^[32]
  1. Flamma Flamma – The Fire Requiem (1994), Sony Classical SK 66293^[33][34]
  2. Terra Terra – The Aquarius Era (1999), BMG Classics 74321 697182
  3. Amor Aeternus – Hymns of Love (2005), Sony BMG 82876 66238 2
• Orrori dell'Amore (1995) for soprano, baritone, counter tenor and chamber orchestra, CD release on Sony Classical (SK 62016), published by Schott Music.^[35]

Study books

• 100 Etudes, Exercises and Simple Tonal Phrases for Piano (Volume I and volume II), published by Schott Music.^[36]
• Venticinque Movimenti per Contrabbasso solo (25 Movements for solo double bass), published by Schott Music.^[37]

Films and film scores

• The film (22 min.) Love Is the Only Master I'll Serve, premiered at the Brooklyn International Film Festival New York, June 2006, directing, script and music score^[38]
• The soundtrack of Mein erstes Wunder, a film by Anne Wild, world premiere at Berlin International Film Festival, 2003^[39]
• The soundtrack of ‘'Marie Antoinette is niet dood'’, a film by Irma Achten, world premiere at Rotterdam International Film Festival, 1996^[40]

Novel publication

Nicholas Lens is the author of the novel (Dutch language) called Het bed van lucht released by Borgerhoff & Lamberights.^[41]