For the 200th birthday
25. Oct 2025
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CalendarProgrammeOperetta in three acts (1883)
Music by Johann Strauss
Libretto by Friedrich Zell and Richard Genée
The plot of the operetta (1883) revolves around the Duke of Urbino, a notorious womanizer, aided and abetted by Caramello, his own personal Figaro. But the ladies have plans of their own … In Fledermaus, champagne causes all the trouble, here the prime mover is the carnival and the pranks
of the masked revellers. Dutch director Nina Spijkers is well-known for her shrewd reappraisals of the classics.
