[Met Performance] CID:331258



Die Fledermaus
Metropolitan Opera House, Thu, December 24, 1998

Debut : Patrick Summers, Bo Skovhus, Richard Holmes


In German & English



Die Fledermaus (189)
Johann Strauss II | Karl Haffner/Richard Genée
Rosalinde
Carol Vaness

Eisenstein
Bo Skovhus [Debut]

Adele
Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz

Alfred
Michael Schade

Prince Orlofsky
Jochen Kowalski

Dr. Blind
Anthony Laciura

Ida
Jennifer Welch-Babidge

Frosch
Max Wright

Dr. Falke
Earle Patriarco

Frank
John Del Carlo

Footman
Richard Holmes [Debut]


Conductor
Patrick Summers [Debut]


Production
Otto Schenk

Set Designer
Günther Schneider-Siemssen

Costume Designer
Peter J. Hall

Lighting Designer
Gil Wechsler

Choreographer
Robert La Fosse

Stage Director
David Kneuss





Die Fledermaus received seven performances this season.
New book and English dialogue by Betty Comden and Adolph Green
The opera was performed in the original German, with spoken dialogue delivered in English. Comden and Green were credited for "New Book and English dialogue"; their revision included the renaming of several roles. In this production Dr. Falke is Dr. Fledermaus and Frank is Friedrich Mittelmann; The evening begins with the opening bars of Pagliacci; Dr. Fledermaus comes before the curtain and corrects the maestro's mistake. He then explains why he has drawn his patients (he is really Sigmund Freud) into his elaborate joke on Eisenstein. Eisenstein had forbiddiden Rosalinde to continue her sessions with Fledermaus, calling him a hoax. The jailer Frosch is an unemployed actor who works in the jail between shows, the last being twenty-five years ago.

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