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Actually more than 80%. The finale is very short... 

Thanks for that great piece of research. Solves the problem...

An afterthought: Could, perhaps, Rufinatscha's last Piano Sonata (D minor, 1880) be orchestrated? Is it possible that this is a symphony in disguise?

I'd classify S-K under the 'late romantic' heading. I tend to think of composers like Barber as 'neo-romantic' because they combine elements of modernism with a basically melodic idiom. Barber's own VC would be an example of this - two movements in a very melodic idiom, although a recognisably 20th century one, followed by a much more modern-sounding finale. S-K's music, by contrast, is much more conservative in idiom, fusing, it seems to me, elements from several composers in the 19thC/early 20C German tradition, e.g. Wagner, Bruckner, Strauss.

Toskey has a reference to a VC, but no accompanying details whatsoever.

I too think the coupling is silly, but curiosity concerning Die Seejungfrau will no doubt induce me to buy the new CD...

Sounds rather Ivesian, doesn't it? 

To answer my own question, this is what appears on the website of the publisher, Universal Edition:

Zemlinsky structured the score of The Mermaid in three parts. In the new critical edition, scheduled for publication in 2013, two versions of Part II appear side by side: the original version (with the rediscovered episode of the Mer-witch) builds to a wild climax, bordering on hysteria, and disrupts the formal balance of the work. The revised version, on the other hand, passes elegantly over the agony and ecstasy of Andersen's fairy tale, as if to say, "The rest is silence".
http://www.universaledition.com/Alexander-Zemlinsky/composers-and-works/composer/796/work/14022

Apologies for my initial cynicism!

Does anyone know whether this new critical edition of Die Seejungfrau is different in any significant way from the edition used up until now? I can think of some new critical editions which consist of a few changed dynamics here and there and not much else...

It may be worth contacting Jeff Joneikis at Records International to find out how to get a copy:
sales@recordsinternational.com

Welcome, Claude. Please see this existing thread:
http://www.unsungcomposers.com/forum/index.php/topic,5462.0.html

...was written in 1963 as a student exercise: a CD was advertised this month at Records International (although it's no longer in their catalogue - so perhaps they're now sold out). It's basically a pastiche of Brahms, but it's actually a hugely enjoyable, melodious and memorable work in its own right.   

Has anyone else heard it?

The opera is, of course, available on the Bongiovanni label:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Smareglia-Nozze-istriane-Tiziano-Severini/dp/B00ID05SQ0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1423912794&sr=8-1&keywords=smareglia

Here's some more info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Smareglia

It's on my wish-list. I'll report back in due course.