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 act with the goddess of love herself, Venus. The "Carmina Burana" contains numerous poetic descriptions of a raucous medieval paradise (CB 195–207, 211, 217, 219), for which the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus, known for his advocation of the blissful life, is even taken as an authority on the subject (CB 211). CB 219 describes, for example, an "ordo vagorum" (vagrant order) to which people from every land and clerics of all rankings were invited—even "presbyter cum sua matrona," or "a priest with his lady wife" (humorous because Catholic priests must swear an oath of celibacy). CB 215 even provides an