Das Christ-Elflein
Music by Hans Pfitzner · libretto by Ilse von Stach · premiered 1906 · at Semperoper
Das Christ-Elflein (The Little Elf of Christ) is an opera in two acts by Hans Pfitzner to a German-language libretto by Pfitzner and Ilse von Stach. The work was originally premiered in 1906 as a Christmas play by von Stach with incidental music by Pfitzner. It was later revised by the composer into a two-act opera (the version performed today) which premiered in Dresden on 11 December 1917.
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About the Composer
Hans Erich Pfitzner (5 May 1869 – 22 May 1949) was a German composer, conductor and polemicist who was a self-described anti-modernist. His best known work is the post-Romantic opera Palestrina (1917), very loosely based on the life of the sixteenth-century composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and his Missa Papae Marcelli.
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Other Operas by Hans Pfitzner
- Der arme Heinrich (1895)
- Die Rose vom Liebesgarten (1900)
- Das Herz (1930)