Composer: |
Johann Strauss |
Music title: |
Die Fledermaus (1874) |
Librettist: |
Carl Haffner |
Librettist: |
Richard Genée |
Work definition: |
Komische Operette in three acts |
Title notes: |
English title: 'The Bat' |
After: |
After the vaudeville play 'Le Réveillon' by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy |
Language: |
German |
World premiere: |
5 April 1874, Theater an der Wien, Vienna |
ROH premiere: |
6 May 1930, Grand Opera Syndicate Limited |
ROH company premiere: |
31 December 1977, The Royal Opera, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London |