DIE FLEDERMAUS

Operetta in three acts (1874)

recommended from 14 years and older

Coproduction with the Dutch National Opera

Composer Johann Strauß. Libretto by Richard Genée after the comedy Le Réveillon by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy in the German adaptation by Karl Haffner.
In German. With German and English supertitles. New Production.

Premiere at 23. December 2023

Friday, 10. January 2003, 07:00 pm – 10:20 pm , Nationaltheater.

Duration est. 3 hours 20 minutes

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Introductions for Die Fledermaus will be held on Dec. 26, 28, 31, and Jan. 2, 5, 7, 10, and 31, one hour prior to the start of each performance on the 1st tier in the anteroom to the royal box.
Please note: Limited seating available, duration approx. 20 min.

Tickets for the 60-minute introductory matinee on 12/17 for Die Fledermaus are available separately.

Introductory matinee

17. December 2023.12.23SundaySun

11:00 am | Nationaltheater

Einführungsmatinee zu DIE FLEDERMAUS

Prices PG10 , € 10 Offstage

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The premiere will be broadcasted live on BR-Klassik radio.

Conductor	Jun Märkl
Production	Helmut Lehberger
Choreography	Vivienne Newport
Based on a production by	Leander Haußmann
Set Design	Bernhard Kleber
Costume Design	Doris Haußmann
Lighting	Michael Bauer
Choruses	Sören Eckhoff

Gabriel von Eisenstein	Thomas Allen
Rosalinde	Gabriele Fontana
Frank	Alfred Kuhn
Prinz Orlofsky	Christopher Robson
Alfred	Eduardo Villa
Dr. Falke	Markus Brück
Dr. Blind	Ulrich Reß
Adele	Margarita De Arellano
Frosch	Jörg Hube
Ida	Beate Vollack

General Music Director Vladimir Jurowski and director Barrie Kosky have worked together on Der Rosenkavalier and Der feurige Engel at the Nationaltheater, and they have also realized musical theater together at the Komische Oper Berlin. For Barrie Kosky, the production of Die Fledermaus is his sixth directing work at the National Theater. As in Rosenkavalier, Victoria Behr is responsible for the costume design. The stage is designed by Rebekka Ringst, who has already developed the theatrical spaces for Der feurige Engel and Agrippina. The choreography is by Otto Pichler, who was a guest in Munich for Der feurige Engel.

Barrie Kosky affords the “operetta of all operettas” a new look and focuses on its morbid side. The scene is Vienna, city of the golden operetta era, where Die Fledermaus celebrated its world premiere at the Theater an der Wien in 1874. The revenge of the bat becomes a nightmare for Gabriel von Eisenstein and many others. A society, an entire city dances towards the abyss. To take revenge on his friend Eisenstein, Dr Falke, alias the bat, orchestrates a misunderstanding with Prince Orlofsky. A marquis and a chevalier, a countess and budding artists meet here for a raucous party. Glasses clink, relationships are strained, there is loving, lying and dancing. They party ‘til the cows come home, always believing: “Happy are those who forget ...”

General Music Director Vladimir Jurowski conducts the Bayerisches Staatsorchester.