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''Das Christ-Elflein'' (''The Little Elf of Christ'')〔The German title is sometimes rendered as ''Das Christelflein''. The title in English is sometimes given as ''The Little Christmas Elf''. See for example, Kennedy and Bourne (1996)〕 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.〔Kennedy, Michael and Bourne, Joyce (1996). ("Christelflein, Das" ). ''The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music''. Retrieved 18 December 2012.〕 ==Background and performance history== ''Das Christ-Elflein'' began life as incidental music by Pfitzner for a Christmas fairy-tale play by the German writer Ilse von Stach (Pfitzner's lover at the time).〔Williamson, John (1991). ("Review: ''Hans Pfitzner'' by Johann Peter Vogel" ), ''Music & Letters'', Vol. 72, No. 3 (Aug., 1991), p. 474. Retrieved via Jstor 15 December 2012 〕 This version premiered on 11 December 1906 at the Prinzregententheater in Munich conducted by Felix Mottl with the actress Maja Reubke in the title role.〔 The premiere was not a success. The German critic Eduard Wahl wrote: It would fain be simple and childlike; it is childish. It would fain be religious; it is sentimental. () It would fain be serious; it is in bad taste, it is ridiculous.〔Hale, Philip (1912). (Programme notes to "Overture to ''Das Christ-Elflein''" ), pp. 92-94. Boston Symphony Orchestra.〕 During the summer of 1917 Pfitzner revised the work as a two-act ''spieloper'' (comic opera). He adapted and shortened the play and turned some of the speaking and silent roles into ones for singers. The revised version premiered on 11 December 1917 at the Königlich-Sächsisches Hoftheater in Dresden conducted by Fritz Reiner with Grete Merrem-Nikisch in the title role.〔Zöchling, Dieter (1990). ''Die Chronik der Oper'', p. 348. Chronik Verlag. ISBN 3611001287〕 Otto Klemperer was an admirer of the work, but Bruno Walter spoke of it as a "Lernaean serpent (librettist ) who had slain Hercules (composer )".〔Cowan, Rob (2 February 2001). ("The Arts: Classical - The Compact Collection" ). ''The Independent''. Retrieved via Highbeam 15 December 2012 .〕 The revised version continues to be performed occasionally in German-speaking countries, e.g. by the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg in 2008, and was heard in Boston for the first time in 1954 when it was given a concert performance in Jordan Hall by the New England Conservatory of Music.〔Pachl, Peter P. (19 December 2008). ("Weihnachtsopern? „Christelflein“ in Hamburg, „Königskinder“ in Berlin" ). ''Neue Musikzeitung''. Retrieved 15 December 2012 .〕〔''Boston Globe'' (11 December 1954). ("Free Conservatory Concerts" ), p. 22. Retrieved 15 December 2012 .〕 The opera was broadcast on German television NWDR in 1955, conducted by Wilhelm Schüchter with Anneliese Rothenberger in the title role,〔Tvprogramme.net. ("Programm vom Sonntag, dem 25. Dezember 1955" ). Retrieved 15 December 2012 .〕 and has subsequently had two more full-length recordings. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Das Christ-Elflein」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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