El Retablo de Maese Pedro

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! El retablo de maese Pedro (Master Peter's Puppet Show) is a puppet-opera in one act with a prologue and epilogue, composed by Manuel de Falla to a Spanish libretto based on an episode from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. The libretto is a faithful adaptation of Cervantes's text, from Chapter 26 of the second part of Don Quixote, with some words edited. Falla composed this opera in devoted homage to the glory of Miguel de Cervantes and dedicated it to the Princess de Polignac, who commissioned the work. Because of its brief length by operatic standards (about 27 minutes), it is not part of the standard operatic repertoire.