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) approaches its renown, as evidenced in both pop culture's appropriation of "O Fortuna" and the classical world's persistent programming and recording of the work. In the United States, "Carmina Burana" represents one of the few box office certainties in 20th-century repertoire. Orff's disciple Wilhelm Killmayer in 1956 created a reduced version for soloists, SATB mixed choir, children's choir, two pianos and six percussion (timpani + 5). This version, authorized by Orff himself, allowed smaller ensembles the opportunity to perform the piece. The popularity of the work has ensured the creation of many additional arrangements for a variety of performing forces.