Die Fledermaus - Schedule, Program & Tickets

Die Fledermaus

Operetta in three acts
Libretto by Karl Haffner and Richard Genée
World premiere on 5 April 1874 at the Theater an der Wien
Premiere at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on April 28, 2018
In German with German and English surtitles

3 hours / one break

"Champagne is in debt, tralalalala" - after a night spent full of confusion and erotic slip-up, the protagonists in Johann Strauss's FLEDERMAUS finally agree. But guilt is not only the alcohol, but confusion above all causes the intrigue of the humiliated Dr.. Hawk, who was once exposed in a bat costume to the ridicule of small town society and now takes his chance to avenge his 'good friend', the bon vivant Gabriel von Eisenstein. And so the chambermaid as an actress, the wife as a Hungarian countess and Eisenstein himself as a French marquis masked and sent to the ball of Prince Orlofsky. The fact that only cat kills in the early morning follows in jail, is then less about champagne than in the nature of things. Johann Strauss succeeded with his FLEDERMAUS the prototype of the Viennese operetta - roller-bred, polka-eating and full of bitter irony. Inspired by Offenbach's Opéras bouffes from Paris, the bourgeois salon audience was relentlessly held up to the mirror - and many a spectator recognized himself on stage in the abstruse sycamore-dike game.

Following his success, Rolando Villazón returns to the Deutsche Oper Berlin as a director with Puccini's LA RONDINE and will take on this operetta, which somehow belongs to every opera house ...

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