Die Fledermaus - Schedule, Program & Tickets
Die Fledermaus
musical direction
Simone Young
staging
Otto Schenk
stage
Günther Schneider-Siemssen
costumes
Milena Canonero
Choreography in Act 2 "Under Thunder and Lightning"
Gerlinde Dill
Gabriel von Eisenstein
Andreas Schager
Rosalinde
Rachel Willis-Sørensen
Frank
Wolfgang Bankl
Prince Orlofsky
Christina Bock
Alfred, a tenor
Daniel Jenz
dr Falcon
Clemens Unterreiner
Adele
Vera-Lotte Boecker
frog
Peter Simonischek
Rarely has a work hit Vienna with such immediacy as Johann Strauss' »Die Fledermaus«. From its premiere in 1874, the piece was performed in the highest density, in 1894 it was honored by the Court Opera, and since then it has remained in the repertoire almost continuously, and since 1900 almost always on New Year's Eve. The most famous of all operettas approaches erotic and social dissimulation with a happy and light hand and makes the bourgeois facades dance, including political and social commentaries.
Director Otto Schenk, who rehearsed the production on December 31, 2011, sees two engines in Fledermaus: sentimentality, the indulgence in an almost hypochondriacally exaggerated mood and the embarrassment caused by an almost satanic entertainment addiction on the part of all those involved.
The plot
ACT 1
The plot revolves around the ball at Prince Orlofsky's. In the first act, all the characters are magnetically drawn to him, with the exception of Alfred, the tenor who is in love with Rosalinde and who wanders along like a comet on the fringes of the event: the chambermaid Adele, she believes, has been invited there by her sister Ida and has to invent a touching story about a sick aunt in order to get out after some back and forth, and her boss, the reindeer Eisenstein, is killed by his friend Dr. Persuades Falke to have fun with him at Orlofsky's instead of serving a prison sentence that was handed to him for insulting his office - although Dr. Falke has his own plan, because Eisenstein once embarrassed him in front of the whole town when, after a masked ball, he let him walk home drunk and dressed as a bat through the streets. Now Falke sees the opportunity for revenge. That's why he ends up inviting Eisenstein's wife Rosalinde to the ball. Before that, she gets into considerable confusion when, after Eisenstein's alleged departure from prison, her former admirer Alfred shows up, her heart troubled, but is arrested by the prison warden Frank in Eisenstein's place. After this official act, Frank goes satisfied to the ball at Orlofsky's.
ACT 2
At Prince Orlofsky's ball, everyone is advised by Dr. Falke arranged entanglements perfectly. To his amazement, Eisenstein meets his maid Adele, who cheekily denies her identity, makes friends with the prison warden and finally falls in love with his own wife, who is dressed and masked as a Hungarian countess.
ACT 3
The third act loosens the knots again. It takes place in prison, which is given a dubious touch by the never sober bailiff, Frog. Everyone gradually arrives there: after the director Frank, who is hung over, first Adele, who is looking for a patron to develop her dramatic talent, along with her sister Ida, then Eisenstein, who learns to his astonishment that he has already been locked up all night ; when Rosalinde also appears and, together with the arrested Alfred, demands an interview with a notary, Eisenstein puts himself in disguise in place of the notary Dr. Blind and so gets behind the events of the previous evening. Luckily, he finally lets himself be convinced that these are also part of Dr. Falke's revenge plan were, and so everything ends well, all the more so since Adele actually finds her patron in Prince Orlofsky.
Subject to change.
Simone Young
staging
Otto Schenk
stage
Günther Schneider-Siemssen
costumes
Milena Canonero
Choreography in Act 2 "Under Thunder and Lightning"
Gerlinde Dill
Gabriel von Eisenstein
Andreas Schager
Rosalinde
Rachel Willis-Sørensen
Frank
Wolfgang Bankl
Prince Orlofsky
Christina Bock
Alfred, a tenor
Daniel Jenz
dr Falcon
Clemens Unterreiner
Adele
Vera-Lotte Boecker
frog
Peter Simonischek
Rarely has a work hit Vienna with such immediacy as Johann Strauss' »Die Fledermaus«. From its premiere in 1874, the piece was performed in the highest density, in 1894 it was honored by the Court Opera, and since then it has remained in the repertoire almost continuously, and since 1900 almost always on New Year's Eve. The most famous of all operettas approaches erotic and social dissimulation with a happy and light hand and makes the bourgeois facades dance, including political and social commentaries.
Director Otto Schenk, who rehearsed the production on December 31, 2011, sees two engines in Fledermaus: sentimentality, the indulgence in an almost hypochondriacally exaggerated mood and the embarrassment caused by an almost satanic entertainment addiction on the part of all those involved.
The plot
ACT 1
The plot revolves around the ball at Prince Orlofsky's. In the first act, all the characters are magnetically drawn to him, with the exception of Alfred, the tenor who is in love with Rosalinde and who wanders along like a comet on the fringes of the event: the chambermaid Adele, she believes, has been invited there by her sister Ida and has to invent a touching story about a sick aunt in order to get out after some back and forth, and her boss, the reindeer Eisenstein, is killed by his friend Dr. Persuades Falke to have fun with him at Orlofsky's instead of serving a prison sentence that was handed to him for insulting his office - although Dr. Falke has his own plan, because Eisenstein once embarrassed him in front of the whole town when, after a masked ball, he let him walk home drunk and dressed as a bat through the streets. Now Falke sees the opportunity for revenge. That's why he ends up inviting Eisenstein's wife Rosalinde to the ball. Before that, she gets into considerable confusion when, after Eisenstein's alleged departure from prison, her former admirer Alfred shows up, her heart troubled, but is arrested by the prison warden Frank in Eisenstein's place. After this official act, Frank goes satisfied to the ball at Orlofsky's.
ACT 2
At Prince Orlofsky's ball, everyone is advised by Dr. Falke arranged entanglements perfectly. To his amazement, Eisenstein meets his maid Adele, who cheekily denies her identity, makes friends with the prison warden and finally falls in love with his own wife, who is dressed and masked as a Hungarian countess.
ACT 3
The third act loosens the knots again. It takes place in prison, which is given a dubious touch by the never sober bailiff, Frog. Everyone gradually arrives there: after the director Frank, who is hung over, first Adele, who is looking for a patron to develop her dramatic talent, along with her sister Ida, then Eisenstein, who learns to his astonishment that he has already been locked up all night ; when Rosalinde also appears and, together with the arrested Alfred, demands an interview with a notary, Eisenstein puts himself in disguise in place of the notary Dr. Blind and so gets behind the events of the previous evening. Luckily, he finally lets himself be convinced that these are also part of Dr. Falke's revenge plan were, and so everything ends well, all the more so since Adele actually finds her patron in Prince Orlofsky.
Subject to change.
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