Die Rose vom Liebesgarten (The Rose from the Garden of Love) is a 1900 opera by Hans Pfitzner to a libretto by , one of Pfitzner's fellow students at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt, which had been prompted by an 1890 painting by Hans Thoma, Der Wächter vor dem Liebesgarten (The Guardian Before the Garden of Love).
The first act was first premiered in concert in March 1900 where it was poorly received between two pieces by Richard Strauss.Michael H. Kater, Composers of the Nazi Era: Eight Portraits (1999) p. 173: "It began in March 1900 when in a Berlin concert the first act of Pfitzner's Die Rose vom Liebesgarten was disadvantageously wedged between Strauss's Tod und Verklärung and Ein Heldenleben. The audience's reaction amounted to a triumph for Strauss and a humiliation..." The premiere on 9 November 1901 in Elberfeld was better received, followed by performances in Mannheim, Bremen, Munich and Hamburg. The opera was published in 1901IMSLP and received its first truly successful staging by Gustav Mahler in Vienna in 1905.Henry-Louis de La Grange, Gustav Mahler, vol. 3 Vienna: Triumph and Disillusion (1904–1907). (1995) p. 85: "Mahler's sensational Rheingold was followed by two important premières: Pfitzner's Die Rose vom Liebesgarten and ..."
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