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With Peter Alexander, Marianne Koch, Marika Rökk, Willy Millowitsch. A film version of the operetta of the same title, in which Dr. Gabriel Eisenstein ends up in prison when he was supposed to smuggle himself into a royal ball to persuade the Prince's wife to renounce her land.
- (148)
- Comedy, Musical
- Géza von Cziffra
- 1962-02-02
Die Fledermaus is a 1962 Austrian musical film directed by Géza von Cziffra and starring Peter Alexander, Marianne Koch and Marika Rökk. It is an adaptation of the operetta Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss II, Karl Haffner and Richard Genée. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Fritz Jüptner-Jonstorff and Alexander ...
Die Fledermaus: Directed by Francesca Kemp. With Thomas Allen, Pamela Armstrong, Lyubov Petrova, Renée Schüttengruber.
- (31)
- Music, Comedy
- Francesca Kemp
- 2003
Die Fledermaus (English: The Bat or The Revenge of the Bat) is a film adaptation of the operetta Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss II.
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The original literary source for Die Fledermaus was Das Gefängnis (The Prison), a farce by German playwright Julius Roderich Benedix that premiered in Berlin in 1851. On 10 September 1872, a three-act French vaudeville play by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, Le Réveillon, loosely based on the Benedix farce, opened at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal. ...
The operetta premiered on 5 April 1874 at the Theater an der Wienin Vienna and has been part of the regular repertoire ever since. It was performed in New York under Rudolf Bial at the Stadt Theatre on 21 November 1874. The German première took place at Munich's Gärtnerplatztheater in 1875. Die Fledermaus was sung in English at London's Alhambra Th...
Act 1
Eisenstein's apartment Gabriel von Eisenstein, a Viennese man-about-town, has been sentenced to eight days in prison for insulting an official, partially due to the incompetence of his attorney, Dr. Blind. Adele, Eisenstein's maid, receives a forged letter, allegedly from her sister who is in the company of the ballet, but actually written by Falke, inviting her to Prince Orlofsky's ball. She pretends the letter says that her aunt is very sick, and asks her mistress Rosalinde (Eisenstein's wi...
Act 2
A summer house in the Villa Orlofsky It transpires that Falke, with Prince Orlofsky's permission, is using the ball as a way of getting revenge on Eisenstein. Some time before, after a costume-party, Eisenstein had abandoned Falke, very drunk and dressed in a bat-costume, in the center of town, exposing him to ridicule the next day. As part of his scheme, Falke has invited Frank, Adele, and Rosalinde to come the ball, all concealing their identities as well. Rosalinde pretends to be a masked...
Act 3
In the prison offices of Warden Frank The next morning they all find themselves at the prison where the confusion increases and is compounded by the jailer, Frosch, who has profited by Warden Frank's absence to become gloriously drunk. Alfred, still in jail in Eisenstein's place, irritates the other prisoners by singing operatic arias. Adele arrives to ask the Chevalier Chagrin (actually Frank) to sponsor her career as an actress, but Frank is not wealthy enough to do this (Melodrama; Couplet...
Strauss's music has been adopted for at least two musical comedies: 1. Nightbirds with lyrics by Gladys Unger, opened at the Lyric Theatre, London30 December 1911 2. Gay Rosalinda, adaptation by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, produced at the Palace Theatre, Londonin 1945
Notes Sources 1. "Die Fledermaus" by Andrew Lamb, in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, edited by Stanley Sadie. (subscription required) 2. Warrack, John and West, Ewan (1992), The Oxford Dictionary of Opera, 782 pages, ISBN 0-19-869164-5
Die Fledermaus: Scores at the International Music Score Library ProjectLibretto to Die Fledermaus in the original German with a literal English translationfrom Aria-Database.comEnglish libretto to Die Fledermauson archive.orgGänzl, Kurt. Die Fledermaus entry in Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre(includes complete original performance history)Die Fledermaus: Directed by Géza von Bolváry. With Marte Harell, Johannes Heesters, Will Dohm, Willy Fritsch. The plot from the famous Johann Strauss operetta adapted as a comedy film with most of the songs left out.
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