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Die Fledermaus

7.0 197 mins Music   Comedy   1990
BBC   Pioneer   RM Arts   Royal Opera House  
Director(s): John Cox

Release Date: 31 Mon, Dec 1990

After the Viennese premiere, the Fledermaus (the bat) conquered the world. It is one of the few operettas that are regularly performed at the major opera houses such as the Metropolitan Opera, the Scala Milan, the Vienna State Opera and the Royal Opera House Convent Garden in London. John Cox directed this lavishly equipped production by Julia Trevelyan Oman initially in London in 1977. On New Year's Eve 1990, this staging offered the luxurious ambiance for the farewell to Joan Sutherland from her London audience. The singer had admired them since her first great success at this prestigious opera house in the fifties. The rushing feast in the second act reached its climax with its stormy cheered performance and the commitment of her friends and colleagues Luciano Pavarotti and Marilyn Horne, with whom she often stood together on the stage.

Casts of Die Fledermaus

Nancy Gustafson

as Rosalinde

Judith Howarth

as Adele

Joan Sutherland

as Party's Guest singer

Luciano Pavarotti

as Party's Guest singer

Marilyn Horne

as Party's Guest singer

Louis Otey

as Gabriel von Eisenstein

Anthony Michaels-Moore

as Doctor Falke

Eric Garrett

as Frank

John Dobson

as Dr. Blind

Richard Bonynge

as Self - Conductor

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