Program

Johann Strauss II, Die Fledermaus

Overture

I: "Täubchen, das entflattert ist"

I: "Ach, ich darf nicht hin zu dir"

I: "Nein, mit solchen Advokaten"

I: "Komm mit mir zum Souper"

I: "So muss allein ich bleiben"

I: "Trinke, Liebchen, trinke schnell"

II: "Ein Souper heut' uns winkt"

II: "Ich lade gern mir Gäste ein"

II: "Ach, meine Herrn und Dame / Mein Herr Marquis"

'Mein Herr Marquis' (Laughing Song)

II: "Dieser Anstand, so manierlich"

II: "Csárdás - Klänge der Heimat"

II: "Im Feuerstrom der Reben"

II: "Herr Chevalier, ich grüße Sie"

Francesco Cilea, L'Arlesiana

"È la solita storia"

Gioachino Rossini, Semiramide

"Serbami ognor si fido"

Camille Saint-Saëns, Samson and Delilah

"Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix" (Delilah)

Giuseppe Verdi, La Traviata

III: "Parigi, o cara"

Henry Rowley Bishop, Home, sweet home

Johann Strauss II, Die Fledermaus

III: Entreakt

III: Melodram

III: "Spiel' ich die Unschuld vom Lande"

III: "Ich stehe voll Zagen"

III: "O Fledermaus, o Fledermaus"

Strauss's Die Fledermaus

Joan Sutherland's last performance at the Royal Opera House!

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Cast

John Cox — Stage director

Julia Trevelyan Oman — Set designer

Robert Bryan — Lighting designer

Derek Deane — Choreographer

Judith Howarth — Adele

Nancy Gustafson — Rosalinde

Bonaventura Bottone — Alfredo

Louis Otey — Gabriel von Eisenstein

Program notes

In the glitz and glamour of London’s Royal Opera House, celebrate New Year’s Eve 1990 with Strauss’s beloved Die Fledermaus, featuring opera legend Dame Joan Sutherland and the great Luciano Pavarotti! Master of the Viennese waltz, Johann Strauss II brings together festive music, a fantastical plot, and free-flowing champagne in his operatic masterpiece, where disloyalty and infidelity are exposed thanks to clever disguises and unfortunate mistakes…

This historic production was the last-ever performance of the inimitable colatura soprano Joan Sutherland at the iconic London venue, where she enjoyed an illustrious singing career for more than forty years. In the second act, witness her unforgettable voice and impeccable interpretation in various arias by Cilea, Rossini, Saint-Saëns, and Verdi, alongside colleagues and close friends, including mythic tenor Pavarotti and mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne.

A closer look: featured composers

Johann Strauss II

Giuseppe Verdi

Camille Saint-Saëns

Gioachino Rossini

Further listening: featured works

Die Fledermaus

Johann Strauss II (Composer)

La Traviata

Giuseppe Verdi (Composer)

Samson and Delilah

Camille Saint-Saëns (Composer)

Semiramide

Gioachino Rossini (Composer)