Die Fledermaus (The Bat)
Music
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Description
After almost 30 years of performing and writing dance music with enormous success, Johann Strauss II, “the Waltz King”, turned his attention to the theatre. Inspired by Offenbach and encouraged by his first wife, Jetty Treffz, he began to write operettas in 1871. In 1874, he wrote – “in 42 nights” – Die Fledermaus, his third operetta, together with the librettists Karl Haffner and Richard Genée. The piece quickly became a huge success and is now widely regarded as the point of culmination of this musical genre.;As with Strauss’ Waltzes and Polkas – what makes the music of Die Fledermaus so intriguing is first and foremost the inexhaustible richness of melody, but also the originality of invention and the sparkling orchestration. This is timeless music, which has its deeper roots in the music of Mozart and Schubert and which is in its naturalness and effortlessness comparable to theirs.
Repertoire：Die Fledermaus
Director：Carolyn Choa
Conductor：Patrick Furrer
Set Designer：Richard Roberts
Costume Designer：Bacchus Lee
Lighting Designer：Samuel Chan
Sound Designer：Essky Yik
Gabriel von Eisenstein：Jasper Sung Dizhang
Rosalinde：Clara Chang Wing-chun
Adele：Ruan Xinai
Dr Falke：Alexander Chen Chun-yiu
Prince Orlofsky：Bobbie Zhang Qian
Alfred：Jiang Jing
Note：This event record is compiled from "Hong Kong Classical Music Yearbook 2015" published by International Association of Theatre Critics (Hong Kong).
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