Metropolitan Opera broadcasts continue on Classical 90.5 at 11:00 a.m. this Saturday, January 2, with a performance of Die Feldermaus by Johann Strauss, Jr. The libretto was written by German dramatist Karl Haffner and German-born author and composer Richard Genée. The Met’s production features English dialogue by playwright Douglas Carter Beane and lyrics by director Jeremy Sams. The performance will run approximately three hours and forty-five minutes.
The supreme example of Viennese operetta, Die Fledermaus both defines and transcends that genre. Its story centers on a magnificent masked ball, given by a Russian prince, that brings together all the main characters in various disguises. The three-act journey from boudoir to ballroom to jail provides ample opportunities for farce and humor, but also for genuine human emotion and a surprisingly realistic view of urban life. The action takes place in Vienna in the late 19th century. The Met’s production is set on New Year’s Eve, 1899.
Metropolitan Opera music director and conductor James Levine brings his incomparable musicianship to Strauss’s beloved operetta for the first time in his 45-year Met career.
THE CAST
Rosalinde: Susanna Phillips
Adele: Lucy Crow
Orlovsky: Susan Graham
Eisenstein: Toby Spence
Alfred: Dimitri Pittas
Dr. Falke: Paulo Szot
Frank: Alan Opie
Frosch: Christopher Fitzgerald
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