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Giselher Klebe focused on literary opera, writing his own librettos based on classical literature. His first opera, premiered in 1959 was "Die Räuber", after the play by Friedrich Schiller. Klebe based "" on Honoré de Balzac's "La Peau de chagrin". He structured it in fifteen "lyrical scenes" in three acts.