Kleider machen Leute (opera)

This article is about the Zemlinksy opera. For the Joseph Suder opera, see Kleider machen Leute (Suder).
Kleider machen Leute
Comic opera by Alexander von Zemlinsky
The composer in 1908
TranslationClothes make the man
LibrettistLeo Feld
LanguageGerman
Based onKleider machen Leute
by Gottfried Keller
Premiere
2 December 1910 (1910-12-02)
Vienna Volksoper

Kleider machen Leute (Clothes make the man or Fine feathers make fine birds) is a comic opera in a prologue and two acts by Austrian composer Alexander Zemlinsky. The libretto was written by Leo Feld, based on the 1874 novella of the same name by Gottfried Keller.