Die Fledermaus
From: Wednesday, 6th April 2011
To: Friday, 8 April 2011
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Synopsis
Prince Orlofski is giving the party of the year and what a night it will be. Rosalinda is plotting an intimate evening with her new opera singer boyfriend while her husband ends is supposed to be in jail. But her husband ends up at the part and her boyfriend ends up in jail! Rosalinda, in disguise, arrives at the party where her own husband flirts with her. 1920s Vienna.
Our Review:
Karen Bussell - 7 April 2011
Andrew Greenwood wields a tight baton as the Welsh National Opera’s touring Die Fledermaus produces frivolous fun and froth, and a good helping of laughs.
The ‘two baritones and a tenor behaving badly’ pantomimic frolic is played on Tim Reed’s elegant set with sumptuous costuming by Deirdre Clancy.
Johann Strauss II’s operetta is a tale of revenge (served cold with champagne and dancing) but there is no real malice. Dr Falke (baritone David Stout) sets up his elaborate plot to punish his friend Eisenstein (tenor Mark Stone) for having left him blind drunk, stripped of his bat costume outside a convent with just a (large) mask for decency’s sake.
The plot thickens as philanderer Eisenstein is supposed to be turning himself in for a week in the clink having bopped a policeman on the nose. Instead he decides to have a final fling unbeknownst to his wife Rosalinde (soprano Nuccia Focile) who has adulterous intentions of her own.
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Cast
Nuccia Focile (Rosalinde)
Mark Stone (Eisenstein)
Helen Lepalaan (Orlofsky)
Paul Charles Clarke (Alfred)
David Stout (Dr Falke)
Joanne Boag (Adele)
Desmond Barrit (Frosch the Gaoler)
Creative
Johann Strauss (Music)
Phil Park (Lyrics)
Welsh National Opera (Company)
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