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Die wundersame Schustersfrau

Music by Udo Zimmermann · libretto by Udo Zimmermann · premiered 1982 · at Schlosstheater Schwetzingen

Die wundersame Schustersfrau (The Wondrous Cobbler's Wife) is an opera in two acts by Udo Zimmermann, with a libretto which he wrote with Eberhard Schmidt based on the 1930 Spanish play La zapatera prodigiosa, a farsa violenta by Federico García Lorca, in the translation by Enrique Beck. The opera was first performed on 25 April 1982 at the Schlosstheater Schwetzingen, staged by Alfred Kirchner.

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Udo Zimmermann is the composer of record for this opera.

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