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14 unusual facts about Die Fledermaus


Brenda Miller Cooper

Later that season she returned to that house to portray the title role in Giacomo Puccini's Tosca and Rosalinde in Johann Strauss II's Die Fledermaus.

David Habbin

Habbin then went on to consolidate his operatic training for two years at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, and has since performed with various UK opera companies in several roles, including Alfredo in La Traviata, Lt. Pinkerton in Madame Butterfly, Ernesto in Don Pasquale, Almaviva in The Barber of Seville, Alfred in Die Fledermaus and Fenton in Falstaff.

Det Ny Teater

Bent Mejding was the driving force behind the restoration of the theater, which he and Niels-Bo Valbro (b. 1956) reopened as a venue for operetta and musicals with a production of The Bat in 1994.

Fritz Muliar

Musical theatre saw Muliar in the non-singing role of Frosch in Die Fledermaus.

Henry Herford

Notable among his roles are the Count (The Marriage of Figaro), Guglielmo and Alfonso (Cosi Fan Tutte), the title role in Don Giovanni, Germont (La Traviata), Silvio (I Pagliacci), Dr Falke (Die Fledermaus), the Forester (The Cunning Little Vixen), Smirnov (William Walton's The Bear), and Demetrius (A Midsummer Night's Dream), which he recorded for Virgin Records.

Jack Gilford

Sir Rudolf Bing engaged Gilford for the comic speaking role of the tippling jailer Frosch in the operetta Die Fledermaus.

Jaro Fürth

Fürth would transition to the era of sound film with ease, and would become a notable character actor throughout the late 1920s and 1930s, appearing in such films as Georg Wilhelm Pabst's drama Diary of a Lost Girl opposite American actress Louise Brooks and Karel Lamač's 1931 film adaptaion of Johann Strauss II's Die Fledermaus, opposite Czech actress Anny Ondra.

Lamplighters Music Theatre

Founded in 1952 by Orva Hoskinson and Ann Pool MacNab, the Lamplighters specialize in light opera, particularly the works of Gilbert and Sullivan, as well as such works as The Merry Widow, Die Fledermaus, Of Thee I Sing, My Fair Lady, Candide, and A Little Night Music.

Miriam Battista

Battista helped Maloney translate Die Fledermaus into English for the Philadelphia Opera Company (1943), and they collaborated on a television talk show, The Maloneys, on the DuMont Television Network (1947–1948).

Noblesse oblige

In the first act of Johann Strauss, Jr.'s operetta Die Fledermaus, when Gabriel Eisenstein's wife, Rosalinde, shows confusion at his intention to wear dress evening clothes to prison, he exclaims, "Noblesse oblige!"

Rosalinda

Rosalinda (musical), a 1942 Broadway musical adapted from Johann Strauss II's Die Fledermaus

Seeta Indrani

She was then invited on the first national tour in 40 years of Britain's oldest opera company, Carl Rosa Opera, playing Prince Orlovsky in Die Fledermaus.

Tatiana Mamaki

On 5 March 1940 the Greek National Opera had its first official opening with the inaugurating Johann Strauss operetta, Die Fledermaus, in which Mamaki was Prima ballerina.

Walter Slezak

In the 1970s, Slezak played the non-singing role of Frosch, the jailer, in the San Francisco Opera production of Johann Strauss' operetta Die Fledermaus.


Fred Stroppel

His musical "Tales from the Manhattan Woods," based on Strauss' Die Fledermaus, recently completed a successful run at the Wings Theatre.

Freddy Quinn

Subsequently, Quinn also performed on the stage in such diverse roles as Prince Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus, the king in The King and I, and Lord Fancourt Babberly in Charley's Aunt.

Graciela Rivera

In 1945, she was given the role of Adele in the musical "Rosalinda", a Broadway version of Johann Strauss II's Die Fledermaus.

Leander Haußmann

His production of Die Fledermaus in Munich was controversial, compounding the trouble surrounding his production of Peter Pan.

Michael Chioldi

He made his San Francisco Opera debut as Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus in 1996 and the following year appeared as Shaunard in La bohème and in the roles of Jack, Supervisor Kopp, and Stonewall Girl, in the West Coast premiere of Stewart Wallace's opera Harvey Milk, based on the life of the San Francisco politician and gay rights activist Harvey Milk, who was assassinated in 1978.

Simona Houda-Šaturová

She was a member of the Prague State Opera (PSO) from 1994 to 1998 where she portrayed such roles as Adele Die Fledermaus, Angelica in Orlando furioso, Frasquita in Carmen, Leni in Gottfried von Einem's The Trial, Oscar in Un ballo in maschera, and Papagena in Die Zauberflöte.

Stanford Olsen

He sang several more larger roles at the Met over the next eight years, including Alfred in Die Fledermaus, Fenton in Falstaff, Idreno in Semiramide, the Italian Tenor in Der Rosenkavalier, and Tonio in La fille du régiment.