Liden Kirsten

About the show

A Danish opera by J. P. E. Hartmann to a libretto by Hans Christian Andersen, inspired by the medieval ballad Hr. Sverkel. The opera began as a one-act work and was revised into two acts for the 1858–59 season, after which it received a warmer response. The reviewed text describes its situation as romantic and poetic but says it has no real plot.