A simultaneous broadcast with BBC2 direct from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden w.ree acts
Text by HAFFNER and GENts from a French vaudeville Le Riveillon by MEILHAC and HALEVY Music by Johann Strauss
Frosch, the jailer.JOSEF MEINRAD ROYAL OPERA CHORUS chorus-master JOHN BACON
ORCHESTRA OF THE
ROYAL OPERA HOUSE leader JOHN BROWN conducted by Zubin Mehta
Producer LEOPOLD LINDTBERG
The action takes place at a watering place near a city. Act 1
At the Eisensteins
7.50* The Bat's Rise to Fame
Philip Hope-Wallace muses on Die Fledermaus's rise from its humbler origin in the world of operetta to equality with the grandest of grand operas in the opera houses of the world.
8.10* Die Fledermaus Act 2
At Prince Orlofsky's
9.10* The City That Didn't Care The Vienna that heard Die Fledermaus for the first time in April 1874 was not in the mood for it. Gordon Stewart draws a thumbnail sketch of Vienna in those days.
9.30* Die Fledermaus
Act 3
At the jail
(Another simultaneous broadcast with BBC2 - Haitink Conducts Mahler: Tuesday 10.15 pm)