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He translated and edited numerous operatic works into German, including "Carmen" (Georges Bizet, 1949) and "La traviata" (Giuseppe Verdi, 1955). Famous productions include "Die Zauberflöte" (Mozart, 1954), "Les contes d'Hoffmann" (Jacques Offenbach, 1958), "Otello" (Verdi, 1959), "Barbe-bleue" (Offenbach, 1961), "The Cunning Little Vixen" (Leoš Janáček, 1956), and "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (Benjamin Britten). The foreign-language operas Felsenstein produced were not usually set in their original tongue, but in a German translation.