Johann Strauss Jr.

Die Fledermaus

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The genre of operetta born in Napoleon III's Paris quickly spread throughout Europe and found its second home in Vienna. Among the many to be seduced also the most famous and prolific of the sons of the Father of the waltz, Johann Strauss jr. who sanctioned his fortune with Die Fledermaus (The bat), an operetta inspired by Le réveillon by Meilhac and Halévy and staged at the Theater an der Wien on April 5, 1874. At the center is the classic love triangle, with consequent deceptions and scenes of jealousy, in the joyful setting of a masked party where the disguise guarantees an otherwise impossible freedom for the protagonists. In the cloudiness induced by the fumes of champagne that cheers up the party, the secret of happiness seems to be hidden: better to forget, even if momentarily, rather than accept the inevitable. Thus the lightness and disenchantment of the story translate musically into a phantasmagoric montage of heterogeneous musical elements. Obviously the beating heart of Die Fledermaus beats to the ternary rhythm of a waltz but the musical potpourri created by Strauss also includes polkas, arias that make the Italian opera verse, citations of the hits of the moment (the operettas of Offenbach) and folkloric pieces, such as the csárdás sung by Rosalinda at the party.

New production in coproduction with the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz (Munich)
Artists
Conductor
Zubin Mehta

Director
Josef Ernst Köpplinger

Sets
Rainer Sinell

Costumes 
Alfred Mayerhofer

Lights
Valerio Tiberi

Choreography
Karl Alfred Schreiner

Video in the Overture
Meike Eber and Raphael Kurig

Dramaturgy
Fedora Wesseler

Chorus and Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Chorus master
Lorenzo Fratini

Compagnia Nuovo BallettO di ToscanA
Gabriel von Eisentstein
Markus Werba

Rosalinde
Olga Bezsmertna

Alfred
Alex Tsilogiannis

Adele 
Regula Mühlemann

Frank 
Reinhard Mayr

Orlofsky 
Marina Viotti

Falke 
Liviu Holender

Blind 
Daniel Prohaska

Blind
Daniel Prohaska

Ida
Valentina Stadler

Frosch/Narrator
Robert Meyer/Michael Dangl (18, 23)

Ivan
Francesco Grifoni
Running Time
Atto I: 50 minuti
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Intervallo: 30 minuti
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Atto II e Atto III: 1 ora e 40 minuti
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Durata complessiva: 3 ore circa
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