Julietta (Erbse opera)

Julietta is a 1959 opera by Heimo Erbse based on Heinrich von Kleist's novel "Die Marquise von O". The opera was premiered at the Salzburg Festival and a recording was made. Although Rolf Liebermann's "Die Schule der Frauen" had been moderately well received at Salzburg in 1957, like Samuel Barber's "Vanessa" given its European premiere in Salzburg in 1958, and Frank Martin's "Mysterium von der Geburt des Herrn" (1960) after it, Erbse's "Julietta" met with critical disapproval and small audiences.