Die Fledermaus or The Bat, sometimes called The Revenge of the Bat) is an operetta composed by Johann Strauss II to a German libretto by Karl Haffner and Richard Genée. The original literary source for Die Fledermaus was Das Gefängnis (The Prison), a farce by German playwright Julius Roderich Benedix that premiered in Berlin in 1851. The operetta premiered on April 5, 1874 at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna and has been part of the regular repertoire ever since.
Cast:
Eisenstein - Wolfgang Brendel
Rosaline - Kirir Te Kanawa
Alfred - Richard Leech
Frosch - Otto Schenk
Vienna Philharmonic
Andre Previn - conductor
Phillips - 1990
