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.

[1] He wrote it on a commission by the broadcaster Süddeutscher Rundfunk after the success of his opera Der Schuhu und die fliegende Prinzessin at the 1977 Schwetzingen Festival.

The libretto, based on Enrique Beck [de]'s German version of Lorca's La zapatera prodigiosa, was written by the composer and Lutz Eberhard Schmidt.

[5] It was performed in Bonn in 1989 (conducted by the composer), Regensburg in 1992, Klagenfurt in 1993, and at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Duisburg in 1996.

Other elements are fake-folklore, use of the celesta reminiscent of Mozart, and repeated strong beats marking rage.