Claus H. Henneberg

Claus H. Henneberg (born February 4, 1936 , † February 22, 1998 ) was a German librettist and translator . As a dramaturge he worked a. a. at the Cologne Opera and the Deutsche Oper Berlin . In 1976/77 he was director of the Kiel Opera House .

Works

Libretti

• Melusine . Opera in 4 acts (1970; based on the play of the same name [1920/30, UA 1956] by Yvan Goll ). Music: Aribert Reimann . Premiere April 29, 1971 Schwetzingen ( Festival )
• Kinkakuji ( The Golden Pavilion ). Opera in 3 acts (1976; based on the novel 金 閣 寺 [ The Temple Fire , 1956] by Yukio Mishima ). Music: Toshirō Mayuzumi . Premiere June 23, 1976 Berlin ( Deutsche Oper )
• Fat dumplings . Opera buffa (based on the novella Boule de suif [1880] by Guy de Maupassant ). Music: Karl Heinz Wahren . Premiere 1976 Berlin (Deutsche Oper)
• Lear . Opera in 2 parts (1976–78; based on King Lear [UA 1606] by William Shakespeare , German by Johann Joachim Eschenburg [1777]). Music: Aribert Reimann . Premiere July 9, 1978 Munich ( Bavarian State Opera ; conductor: Gerd Albrecht ; direction and set design: Jean-Pierre Ponnelle ; costumes: Pet Halmen ; with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau [Lear])
• Enrico . Dramatic comedy in 9 scenes (1989–91; based on Enrico IV [WP 1922] by Luigi Pirandello ). Music: Manfred Trojahn . Premiere April 10, 1991 Schwetzingen (Festival; conductor: Dennis Russell Davies, direction and set design: Peter Mussbach )
• Three sisters . Opera in 3 sequences (1996/97; based on the play of the same name [1900, WP 1901] by Anton Čechov ). Music: Péter Eötvös . Premiere March 13, 1998 Lyon (Opéra; conductors: Kent Nagano and Peter Eötvös)
• What you want . Opera in 4 acts (1997/98; after Twelfth Night, or What You Will [~ 1600] by Shakespeare). Music: Manfred Trojahn. Premiere May 24, 1998 Munich (Bavarian State Opera; conductor: Michael Boder , direction and set design: Peter Mussbach, costumes: Andrea Schmidt-Futterer)
• Thomas Chatterton . Opera in 2 parts (1994–98; based on the play of the same name [1955, premiered 1956] by Hans Henny Jahnn ). Music: Matthias Pintscher . WP 25 May 1998 Dresden ( Semperoper ; conductor: Marc Albrecht , direction and set design: Marco Arturo Marelli , costumes: Dagmar Niefind)
• The flood . Music theater piece (with Michael Hampe ; based on the play of the same name [premiered in 1924] by Ernst Barlach ). Music: Wilfried Maria Danner . World premiere April 13, 2002 Karlsruhe ( Badisches Staatstheater ; director: Michael Hampe; set and costumes: Henning von Gierke; conductor: Kazushi Ōno )
• Pasha . Chamber opera in one act (working title Corps de Ballet ) (1996; based on the story Die Choristin by Anton Chekhov) Music: Oliver Gruhn.

Translations

Dramas

• Myfanwy Piper (1911-1997): Owen Wingrave (UA 1971/73). Opera. Music: Benjamin Britten , op.85.Faber and Faber, London 1970 (translation together with Karl Robert Marz )
• Randolph Stow (1935-2010): Miss Donnithorne's Maggot ( Miss Donnithornes Grille ; UA 1974). Opera. Music: Peter Maxwell Davies , Boosey & Hawkes, London 1977
• Fedora Bartošová (1884–1941): Osud ( fate ; premier 1934/58). Opera. Music: Leoš Janáček . Sikorski Verlag, Hamburg 1985
• James Kirkup (1918–2009): An actor's revenge ( The revenge of an actor ). Opera. Music: Minoru Miki (1930–2011). Faber Music, London 1989
• Antonio Bibalo (1922-2008): Macbeth (UA 1990, DE 1994). Opera. Music: Antonio Bibalo. Sikorski Verlag , Hamburg
• Peter Ustinov (1921–2004): The Marriage and Other Comedies. S. Fischer Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 2002. ISBN 978-3-596-15182-0

prose

• Nicolas Nabokov : Two right shoes in the luggage . Memories of a Russian citizen of the world (translation together with Hellmut Jaesrich ). Piper Verlag , Munich / Zurich 1975. Paperback edition: dtv , Munich 1979

Editions

• Hans Magnus Enzensberger  / Hans Werner Henze u. a .: El Cimarrón . A work report. Schott Verlag , Mainz 1971 (= Edition Schott 6397)