Zwerg, Der

Zwerg, Der (The Dwarf). Opera in 1 act by Zemlinsky to lib. by G. C. Klaren based on Wilde's The Birthday of the Infanta. Comp. 1920–1. F.p. Cologne 1922 (cond. Klemperer), f. Brit. p. Edinburgh Fest. 1983 (by Hamburg Opera in double bill with Zemlinsky's Eine florentinische Tragödie, also based on Wilde, f.p. Stuttgart, 1917), CG (in same double-bill) 1985. In the 1983 Hamburg prod. and subsequent recording of Der Zwerg, a new lib. by Adolf Dresen is sung.

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