About the operetta
- Run time: 3hrs 30min, 2 intermissions
- Sung in: German
- Subtitles: English, German
- Opera house: Vienna State Opera
The Vienna State Opera continues its annual tradition of performing Die Fledermaus as part of the New Year's celebration. Strauss's most brilliant work is held to be the quintessential Viennese operetta. Endearing pranks drive the action forward, and the cast of lovable schemers delights audiences. There are memorable solo vocal parts, but the consistent show-stoppers are ensembles, where Strauss's vocal music is just as refined and sparkling as the champagne that flows so copiously in Act II.
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Vienna State Opera
Opernring 2, 1010 Vienna View in Google Maps
How to get there:
Subway: U1, U2, U4 to Karlsplatz
Trams: 1, 2, D, 62, 71 to Opernring
Conductor Bertrand de Billy
Gabriel von Eisenstein Georg Nigl
Rosalinde Hanna-Elisabeth Müller
Frank Wolfgang Bankl
Prinz Orlofsky Daria Sushkova
Alfred Jörg Schneider
Dr. Falke Clemens Unterreiner
Adele Ilia Staple
Frosch Michael Niavarani
The Strauss family, father and sons, dominated the world of European ballroom dance with their music for nearly 100 years. It was Johann Strauss the Younger (1825 –1899), however, who won world fame as the “waltz king”. Among his more than 400 dance compositions, the most famous are The Blue Danube, Tales from the Vienna Woods, The Emperor Waltz, the Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka and and Wine, Women, and Song. Strauss also composed 16 operettas, the best known being Die Fledermaus and The Gypsy Baron.
Playwright Karl Haffner (1804 –1876) and librettist and composer Richard Genée (1823 –1895) adapted the play Le Réveillon by Henri Meilhac (1830 –1897) and Ludovic Halévy (1834 –1908), French authors best known for the libretto for Georges Bizet's Carmen.
