Fledermaus,
J. Strauss jr
1.
Die
Fledermaus
J.
Strauss - Die Fledermaus, Opéra Bastille
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JT2szIB9A0k
Adina
Nitescu (Rosalinde), Marlis Petersen (Adele), Eduardo Villa (Alfred), Marina
Domaschenko (Prinz Orlofsky), William Joyner (Gabriel von Eisenstein), Oddbjørn
Tennfjord (Frank), Marian Pop (Dr. Falke), Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke (Dr.
Blind), Gilles Privat (Frosch), Jeanne Tremsal (Ida)
Chœurs et
orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris
Direction : Armin Jordan
Mise en scène : Coline Serreau
Opéra de Paris Bastille, le 30 décembre 2000
Réalisation : François Roussillon
2.
Die
Fledermaus - J. Strauss jr. (De Nederlandse Opera)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1zJPaOfaUw
Die Fledermaus - Joh. Strauß jr.
Production of De Nederlandse Opera (1997).
Gabriël von Eisenstein - Walter Raffeiner
Rosaline - Barbara Daniels
Adele - Edith Lienbacher
Frank - Bodo Schwanbeck
Prinz Orlofsky - Matthew Connel
Dr. Falke - Wolfgang Rauch
Alfred - Robert Gambill
Koor van
de Nederlandse Opera
Nederlands
Philharmonisch Orkest
Ralf Weikert
Die Fledermaus (The Bat) is an operetta composed by Johann
Strauss II to a German libretto by Karl Haffner and Richard Genée.
The original source for Die Fledermaus is a farce by German
playwright Julius Roderich Benedix (1811--1873), Das Gefängnis (The Prison).
Another source is a French vaudeville play, Le réveillon, by Henri Meilhac and
Ludovic Halévy. This was first translated by Karl Haffner into a non-musical
play to be produced in Vienna.
However, the peculiarly French custom of the réveillon (a New Year's Eve supper
party) caused problems, which were solved by the decision to adapt the play as
a libretto for Johann Strauss, with the réveillon replaced by a Viennese ball.
At this point Haffner's translation was handed over for adaptation to Richard Genée,
who subsequently claimed not only that he had made a fresh translation from
scratch but that he had never even met Haffner.
The operetta premièred on 5 April 1874 at the Theater an der
Wien in Vienna
and has been part of the regular repertoire ever since.
Die Fledermaus has been adapted numerous times for the
cinema and for TV