 When she realizes that she and her pack of dogs have mangled the object of their desire, she dies herself through "a crushing feeling".The Swiss composer Othmar Schoeck wrote a 90' one-act opera, "Penthesilea" (Dresden, 1927) based on Kleist's drama.The French composer Pascal Dusapin's opera based on Kleist's work is scheduled to premiere in 2015 at La Monnaie in Brussels under the baton of Ludovic Morlot.