The most brilliant of Austrian operettas takes us to the outskirts of romantic Old Vienna. It’s New Year Eve and we are in the company of Caroline, who is determined to teach her philandering husband Gaillardin a lesson, even while she is being pursued by her former beau, the operatic tenor Alfred. At the centre of the action is the extremely wealthy, eternally bored Prince Orlofsky, whose lavish masked ball brings everything to a most delicious boil. But what if the whole plot has been a cunning plan masterminded by someone just to get back at Eisenstein?

Die Fledermaus, Johann Strauss II’s comic operetta in three acts which premiered in 1874, has become a synonym of the operetta genre. In only six years, the operetta was staged in more than 170 theatres in the German-speaking regions and, by the 1890s, was performed all over the world. The libretto was written by Richard Genée and Karl Haffner after the burlesque The Prison by Julius Roderich Benedix and vaudeville piece Le Réveillon by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy. The emblem of Viennese refinement, here the new production from Opéra de Lille returns Die Fledermaus to these origines with song and dialogue in French. The staging is entrusted to the colourful imagination of Laurent Pelly. A master of comedy – as seen in his recent Meistersinger from Madrid – Pelly is able to indulge his taste for zany situations with precision, elegance and charm. This is sparkling Chauve-Souris turned on its head... which, as it were, is the Bat’s most natural position.

Full performance streamed on OperaVision from 13 September 2024 at 19:00 CET to 13 March 2025 at 12:00 CET: https://operavision.eu/performance/di...

CAST

Gaillardin
Guillaume Andrieux

Caroline
Camille Schnoor

Adele
Marie-Eve Munger

Duparquet
Christophe Gay

Bidard
Raphaël Brémard

Tourillon
Franck Leguérinel

Prince Orlofsky
Héloïse Mas

Alfred
Julien Dran

Léopold
Eddy Letexier

Ida
Claire Antoine

Extras
Camerone Bida
Éloïse Rose

Orchestra
Orchestre de Picardie

Chorus
Opéra de Lille Chorus

Music
Johann Strauss II

Text
Karl Haffner
Richard Genée

Conductor
Johanna Malangré

Director
Laurent Pelly

Adaptation of the libretto and dialogue
Agathe Mélinand

French adaptation of the lyrics
Moshe Leiser
Patrice Caurier

Scenography
Chantal Thomas

Lights
Michel Le Borgne

Costumes
Laurent Pelly
Elsa Bourdin

Assistant Director
Paul Higgins

Vocal coaches
Christophe Manien
Flore Merlin

Chorus Master
Mathieu Romano
Louis Gal

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