Die Fledermaus

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Die Fledermaus

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The champagne flows, and a whole society waltzes towards the abyss as eroticism, lies, intrigues and infidelities open the masked ball. From the very first notes of the overture, the party is under way in Johann Strauss's famous operetta. The story is comic and the complications many, so prick up your ears, because things move fast now: the protagonist Eisenstein once left his friend Dr Falke in the street one night, drunk and dressed in a bat costume. Now Falke is planning his revenge. He invites Eisenstein to a masked ball, but has also invited his wife Rosalinde. She passes herself off as a Hungarian countess, and Eisenstein is completely captivated and tries to seduce his own wife. The couple's maid Adele is at the party too, and so is the prison governor Frank, who was really supposed to arrest Eisenstein. Confused? That doesn't matter much, because none of it is to be taken too seriously in Strauss's immortal operetta, and the Austrian master composer underlines this with a string of recognisable and highly hummable songs. Look forward to star director Barrie Kosky's festive staging, in which bat costumes play a not insignificant role, and in which singers, dancers and more than 30 extras turn Operaens Store Scene into the setting for a party you will not forget in a hurry. Barrie Kosky is, incidentally, behind several of the recent years' successes at Den Kongelige Opera – Bizet's Carmen, Handel's Saul, Mozart's The Magic Flute and Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites. Die Fledermaus is sung in Danish/German with Danish and English surtitles. In collaboration with Bayerische Staatsoper München and De Nationale Opera Amsterdam Recommended from age 6