Blacklisted by the Nazis in 1933, his music having already been banned from performance, Walter Braunfels was a prolific composer in many genres, including several operas and large-scale vocal and orchestral works. It was only 40 years after his death that his music started to generate serious interest once more. His first fully staged opera, Prinzessin Brambilla, much admired by Busoni and drawing notably on the commedia dell’arte, has been described as a musical fantasy in the fashion of a post-Wagnerian fairy-tale opera. Set in 18th century Rome at Carnival time, the plot deals with the ambitious love of the actor Claudio for the eponymous Princess, revealed finally as his true love, Giazinta, a seamstress, with whom he is finally united.