Fledermaus, Die, The Bat
Johann Strauss. Komische Operette in three acts. 1874.
Libretto by Carl Haffner and Richard Genée, after Le réveillon (The
Midnight Supper) by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy.
First performance at the Theater an der Wien, Vienna, on 5th April 1874.
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Gabriel von Eisenstein: William Joyner, Rosalinde: Adina Nitescu, Frank:
Oddbjorn Tennfjord, Prinz Orlofsky: Marina Domaschenko, Alfred: Eduardo Villa, Dr.
Falke: Marian Pop, Dr.Blind: Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke, Adele: Marlis
Petersen,
Frosch:Gilles Privat, Ida: Jeanne Tremsal
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro dell' Opera di Parigi
Conductor: Armin Jordan
ACT I.
Vienna, 1890s.
Through the windows of the Eisenstein home floats the serenade of Alfred, a
tenor still in love with his old flame Rosalinde, now the wife of Gabriel von
Eisenstein. Adele, a chambermaid, saunters in reading an invitation to a masked
ball; Rosalinde, bedeviled by a headache and believing she has heard Alfred's
voice, enters but finds only Adele. The maid asks for the evening off to visit
a "sick aunt," a plea her mistress dismisses. Alfred steps into the
room and begins to woo Rosalinde, who resists his verbal blandishments but
melts on hearing his high A. The suitor leaves as Eisenstein and his lawyer,
Blind, arrive from a session in court: Eisenstein has been sentenced to a
fortnight in jail for a civil offense. No sooner does he dismiss the
incompetent advocate than his friend Falke comes to invite Eisenstein to a
masquerade, suggesting he bring along his repeater stop-watch, which charms all
the ladies, so he can accumulate pleasant memories to sustain him during his
confinement in jail. Rosalinde joins Adele in a bittersweet farewell to
Eisenstein before he goes off to prison, got up, to his wife's surprise, in
full evening dress. Sending Adele to her "aunt," Rosalinde receives
the ardent Alfred. Their tête-à-tête is interrupted by the warden Frank, who
mistakes Alfred for the man he has come to arrest. Rosalinde persuades Alfred
to save her name by posing as her husband, and Frank carts him off to jail.
ACT II. In an antechamber at the palace of Prince Orlofsky,
the nobleman's guests, Adele and her cousin Ida among them, await the arrival
of their host. Orlofsky enters, quite bored — even with Falke's promise of a
comedy of errors. The prince proclaims his guests free to do anything that
suits their fancy — "Chacun à son gout." Adele, dressed in one of
Rosalinde's most elegant gowns, laughs off Eisenstein's suggestion that she
resembles his wife's chambermaid. Frank enters, and Rosalinde, also invited by
Falke, arrives disguised as a temperamental Hungarian countess; she is soon
wooed by her own reeling husband, whose pocket watch she steals to hold as
proof of his philandering. Rosalinde agrees to sing a song about her
"native" land, a spirited czardas, after which the guests move on to
a magnificent dining area to toast the joys of wine, good fellowship and love.
Champagne flows, and the guests dance wildly until dawn. When the clock strikes
six, Eisenstein staggers off to keep his appointment at the jail.
ACT III. Moments later at the prison, Frosch, a drunken jailer, tries
to keep order among the inmates, who are unable to sleep because of Alfred's
singing. Frank arrives, still giddy with champagne, followed shortly by Ida and
Adele, who, thinking him a theatrical agent, believes he might further her
stage aspirations. Frank, hearing someone at the door, hides the girls in a
cell and then admits Eisenstein, who has come to begin his sentence. The new
prisoner is surprised to learn his cell is already occupied by a man who claims
to be Eisenstein and who was found supping with Rosalinde; to obtain an
explanation from the impostor, Eisenstein snatches a legal robe and wig from
his astonished lawyer. No sooner is he disguised than Rosalinde hurries in to
secure Alfred's release and press divorce charges against her errant husband.
With her would-be paramour, she confides her flirtation to the
"lawyer." Enraged, Eisenstein removes his disguise and accuses his
wife of promiscuity, at which Rosalinde whips forth the watch she took from him
at the ball. Orlofsky and his guests arrive to celebrate the reconciliation of
Rosalinde and Eisenstein, singing a final toast as Eisenstein is taken away.
Die Fledermaus,operetta,by J.Strauss
Paris, Opera Bastille
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