Celesta (1925), Richard Strauss's "Ariadne auf Naxos" (1912), and "Die Frau ohne Schatten" (1918), while "an excellent example of its beauty when well employed", is the Silver Rose scene in his "Der Rosenkavalier" (1911), Ferruccio Busoni's "Arlecchino" (1917) and "Doktor Faust" (1925), Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana" (1936) and "Der Mond" (1939), Gian Carlo Menotti's "Amelia Goes to the Ball" (1937), Benjamin Britten's "The Turn of the Screw" (1954) and "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (1960), Conrad Susa's "Transformations" (1973), and Philip Glass' "Akhnaten" (1984). The keyboard glockenspiel part in Mozart's "The Magic Flute" is nowadays often played by a celesta. Since Earl
Carmina Burana (Orff) disciple Wilhelm Killmayer in 1956 and authorized by Orff himself, to allow smaller ensembles the opportunity to perform the piece. See also Subsequent arrangements below. "Carmina Burana" was first staged in Frankfurt by the Frankfurt Opera on 8 June 1937 under conductor (1892–1967) with the , staging by and sets and costumes by Ludwig Sievert. Shortly after the greatly successful premiere, Orff said the following to his publisher, Schott Music: Several performances were repeated elsewhere in Germany. The Nazi regime was at first nervous about the erotic tone of some of the poems, but eventually embraced the piece. It became