About the production
- Run time: 3hrs 30min, 2 intermissions
- Sung in: GERMAN
- Subtitles: English, German
- Opera house: Vienna State Opera
The Vienna State Opera continues its annual tradition of performing Die Fledermaus as part of the New Year's celebration. This season two winning casts bring the most Viennese of all operettas to life: Jörg Schneider and Andreas Schager share the role of Eisenstein, opposite Laura Aikin and Rachel Willis-Sørensen as Rosalinde. Clemens Unterreiner and Martin Hässler portray Falke, Eisenstein’s friend, who sets the plot in motion. Daria Sushkova and Christina Bock appear as Prince Orlofsky, Vera-Lotte Boecker and Maria Nazarova sing Adele, and Peter Simonischek is Frosch, the jailer. Yoel Gamzou and Patrick Lange conduct.
Ticket information
- Select a date an book
- E-Ticket (Print@home
Vienna State Opera
Address:
How to get there:
Underground: U1, U4 to Karlsplatz
Trams: 1, 2, D, 62, 71 to Opernring
After the performance taxis will drive up to the main entrance
Conductor: Yoel Gamzou, Patrick Lange
Gabriel von Eisenstein: Andreas Schager, Jörg Schneider
Rosalinde: Rachel Willis-Sørensen, Laura Aikin
Frank: Wolfgang Bankl, Hans Peter Kammerer
Prinz Orlofsky: Christina Bock, Daria Sushkova
Alfred: Daniel Jenz, Thomas Ebenstein
Dr. Falke: Clemens Unterreiner, Martin Häßler
Adele: Vera-Lotte Boecker, Maria Nazarova
Frosch: Peter Simonischek
The Strauss family, father and sons, dominated the world of European ballroom dance with their music for nearly 100 years. It was Johann Strauss the Younger (1825 –1899), however, who won world fame as the “waltz king”. Among his more than 400 dance compositions, the most famous are The Blue Danube, Tales from the Vienna Woods, The Emperor Waltz, the Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka and and Wine, Women, and Song. Strauss also composed 16 operettas, the best known being Die Fledermaus and The Gypsy Baron.
Playwright Karl Haffner (1804 –1876) and librettist and composer Richard Genée (1823 –1895) adapted the play Le Réveillon by Henri Meilhac (1830 –1897) and Ludovic Halévy (1834 –1908), French authors best known for the libretto for Georges Bizet's Carmen.
