Claus H. Henneberg (4 February 1936 – 22 February 1998)^[1] was a German librettist and translator. He worked as dramaturge for the Cologne Opera and the Deutsche Oper Berlin. In the 1976/77 season, he was the Intendant of the Opernhaus Kiel.

Librettos[edit]

• Melusine, opera in four acts (1970) after the play of the same name (1920/30, premiered in 1956) by Yvan Goll), music: Aribert Reimann, premiere 29 April 1971 Schlosstheater Schwetzingen (Schwetzingen Festival)
• Kinkaku-ji (The golden Pavillon), opera in three acts (1976), after the novel 金閣寺 (The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, 1956) by Yukio Mishima), music: Toshiro Mayuzumi, premiered 23 June 1976 Deutsche Oper Berlin
• Fettklößchen, opera buffa after the novella Boule de suif (1880) by Guy de Maupassant), music: Karl Heinz Wahren [de], premiered 1976 Deutsche Oper Berlin
• Lear, opera in two parts (1976–78) after Shakespeare's King Lear (premiered 1606), translated by Johann Joachim Eschenburg (1777), music: Reimann, premiered 9 July 1978 Bavarian State Opera, conducted by Gerd Albrecht, staged by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, costumes by Pet Halmen [de], with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in the title role
• Enrico, dramatic comedy in nine scenes (1989–91) after Enrico IV (premiered 1922) by Luigi Pirandello, music: Manfred Trojahn, premiered 10 April 1991 Schwetzingen Festival, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies, staged by Peter Mussbach [de]
• Drei Schwestern, opera in three sequences (1996/97; after the play of the same name (1900, premiered 1901] by Anton Chekhov, music: Péter Eötvös, premiered 13 March 1998 Lyon Opera, conducted by Kent Nagano and the composer
• Was ihr wollt, opera in four acts (1997/98), after Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, or What You Will (c. 1600), music: Trojahn, premiered 24 May 1998 Bavarian State Opera. conducted by Michael Boder, staged by Mussbach
• Thomas Chatterton, opera in two parts (1994–98) after the play of the same name (1955, premiered 1956) by Hans Henny Jahnn, music: Matthias Pintscher, premiered 25 May 1998 Semperoper, conducted by Marc Albrecht, staged by Marco Arturo Marelli
• Die Sündflut, music theatre (with Michael Hampe after the play of the same name (premiered 1924) by Ernst Barlach, music: Wilfried Maria Danner [de], premiered 13 April 2002 Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, staged by Hampe, conducted by Kazushi Ōno
• Pascha, chamber opera in one act, also known as Corps de Ballet (1996) after the story The Chorus Girl by Chekhov, music: Oliver Gruhn.

Publications[edit]

• Hans Magnus Enzensberger; Hans Werner Henze (1971). Claus H. Henneberg (ed.). El Cimarrón. Ein Werkbericht. Mainz: Schott Music. ISBN 978-3-7957-2210-4. ED 6397.
• Alexander Borodin. Marek Bobéth; Claus H. Henneberg (eds.). Prince Igor. Mainz: Schott Music. LBEL 1012-01.

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Claus H. Henneberg discography at Discogs