The Bat - Schedule, Program & Tickets

The Bat

Operetta in three acts
Libretto by Karl Haffner and Richard Genée
First performance on April 5, 1874 in the Theater an der Wien
Premiere at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on April 28, 2018

recommended for ages 13 and up

In German with German and English surtitles

3 hours / one break

Introduction: 45 minutes before the start of the performance in the foyer on the right

"Champagne is to blame, tralalalala" - the protagonists in Johann Strauss ’FLEDERMAUS agree after a night of drinking full of mix-ups and erotic slips. Not only the alcohol is to blame, the intrigue of the humiliated Dr. Falke, who was once exposed to the ridicule of small-town society in a bat costume and now uses his chance to get revenge on his 'good friend', the bon vivant Gabriel von Eisenstein. And so the maid as an actress, the wife as a Hungarian countess and Eisenstein himself as a French marquis are masked and sent to Prince Orlofsky's ball. The fact that this is only followed by Katzenjammer in the early morning in prison is less due to the champagne than to the nature of things. With his FLEDERMAUS, Johann Strauss succeeded in creating the prototype of the Viennese operetta - impregnated with waltzes, obsessed with polka and full of bitter irony. Inspired by Offenbach's Opéras bouffes from Paris, the mirror was relentlessly held up to the bourgeois salon audience - and some spectators recognized themselves in the abstruse sapling-changing game on stage.



Musical director Daniel Carter
Production by Rolando Villazón
Stage Johannes Leiacker
Costumes Thibault Vancraenenbroeck
Light Davy Cunningham
Choreography Philippe Giraudeau
Video Dorian Häfner
Wieland Hilker
Jeremy Bines choirs

Gabriel von Eisenstein Thomas Blondelle
Rosalinde, Gabriel's wife Hulkar Sabirova
Frank, prison director Stephen Bronk
Prince Orlofsky Annika Schlicht
Alfred, singing teacher Attilio Glaser
Dr. Falke, notary Philipp Jekal
Dr. Blind, lawyer Jörg Schörner
Adele, chambermaid Katerina von Bennigsen
Ida Kathleen Bauer
Frog Ingo Paulick

Choir of the Deutsche Oper Berlin
Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin
Opera ballet of the Deutsche Oper Berlin



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