Die schweigsame Frau | |
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Opera by Richard Strauss | |
Librettist | Stefan Zweig |
Language | German |
Based on | Ben Jonson's Epicœne, or The Silent Woman (1609) |
Premiere | 24 June 1935 Semperoper, Dresden |
Die schweigsame Frau (The Silent Woman), Op. 80, is a 1935 comic opera in three acts by Richard Strauss to a libretto by Stefan Zweig after Ben Jonson's 1609 comedy Epicœne, or The Silent Woman.