Die Dorfschule (The Village School), Op.
64, is a 1918 German opera in one act by Felix Weingartner[1] based on act 4, scene 3, "Terakoya" (temple school), from the Japanese kabuki play Sugawara Denju Tenarai Kagami.
[3] The subject of the opera had already been treated by the 17-year old Carl Orff as Gisei – Das Opfer, in June 1913, one of the juvenile works that Orff did not have performed during his lifetime.
Orff's treatment was based on the German translation of "Terakoya" by Karl Florenz [de].
[4] A 2012 recording of the opera has been issued on a 1-disc set by the German label cpo, in 2015[5] with the German Opera Orchestra, chorus and soloists conducted by Jacques Lacombe.