''Der gewaltige Hahnrei'' is an opera by German composer

Berthold Goldschmidt Berthold Goldschmidt (18 January 190317 October 1996) was a German Jewish composer who spent most of his life in England. The suppression of his work by Nazi Germany, as well as the disdain with which many Modernist critics elsewhere dismissed his ...

based on ''Le Cocu Magnifique'' by

Fernand Crommelynck Fernand Crommelynck (19 November 1886 – 17 March 1970) was a Belgian dramatist. His work is known for farces in which commonplace weaknesses are developed into monumental obsessions. Biography He was born into a family of actors, the child ...

. The opera was premiered 14 February 1932 at the Nationaltheater

Mannheim Mannheim (; Palatine German: or ), officially the University City of Mannheim (german: Universitätsstadt Mannheim), is the second-largest city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg after the state capital of Stuttgart, and Germany's 2 ...

.Gramophone - Volume 74 - Page 12 1996. His operas, Der gewaltige Hahnrei and Beatrice Cenci, both dealt with abuse of women thereby also symbolically dealing with the injustice of tyranny . Difficult edges could suddenly modulate into an explosion of heart - breaking melody "

Recording

*Goldschmidt: ''Der gewaltige Hahnrei'' - Helen Lawrence (mezzo-soprano), Claudio Otelli (bass), Robert Worle (tenor), Martin Petzold (tenor), Marita Posselt (soprano),

Roberta Alexander Roberta Alexander (born March 3, 1949) is an American operatic soprano. She began her career as a lyric soprano in 1975 and spent the next three decades performing principal roles with opera houses internationally. Particularly celebrated for he ...

(soprano), Michael Kraus (tenor) Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, conducted

Lothar Zagrosek Lothar Zagrosek (born 13 November 1942 in Otting, Germany) is a German conductor. As a youth, he sang in the Regensburg Cathedral choir, including performances as the First Boy in ''The Magic Flute'' at the 1954 Salzburg Festival. From 1962 to ...

Recorded: 1992–11, Decca 1994

References

{{Authority control Operas 1931 operas Operas by Berthold Goldschmidt