J.Strauss II : Die Fledermaus

OPERA HOUSE

Gabriel von Eisenstein	:	Wolfgang Brendel
Rosalinde	:	Nancy Gustafson
Frank	:	Sergei Leiferkus
Prinz Orlofsky	:	Elena Zhidkova
Alfred	:	Mizuguchi Satoshi
Dr. Falke	:	Paul Armin Edelmann
Adele	:	Nakajima Akiko
Dr. Blind	:	Takahashi Jun
Frosch	:	Hans Kraemmer
Ida	:	Nakamura Eri

June 2006	14	17	20	23	26	28
	Wed	Sat	Tue	Fri	Mon	Wed
2:00						X
3:00		X
6:30	X		X		X
7:00				X

Doors will open 45 minutes before the opening of the performance.
Approximate runnning time : 3 hours 30 minutes

Seat	SS	S	A	B	C	D	E	F	Z
Price(yen)	21,000	18,900	15,750	13,650	10,500	7,350	6,300	3,150	1,500

*A part of "Seat F" (¥3,150) : Sold at the NNTT Box Office and all Ticket Pia outlets on the performance date only. Up to 2 tickets per person. No phone reservations. *Seat Z(\1,500): Sold to students only at some Ticket Pia outlets on the day before the performance. Any tickets not sold by the performance date will be released to the general public at the NNTT Box Office and some Ticket Pia outlets. One ticket per person. No phone reservations. Students must bring a valid student ID. *Same day student tickets (50% off, except Seat F & Z ): Sold at the NNTT Box Office and some Ticket Pia outlets on the performance date. One ticket per person. No phone reservations. Students must bring a valid student ID.

*Opera House Ticket Prices & Seating Plan

The supreme masterpiece of operettas, written on the outskirts of Vienna by the King of the Waltz, Johann Strauss II. Since its premiere in 1874 under the direction of the composer himself, it has won the hearts of people throughout the world. Liberally sprinkled with lovely waltzes and polkas, its elegant and refined satire and humor lighten the heart, and by the time the happy ending comes around, this crown jewel of musical theater has seamlessly fused song and dance and theater and made the audience one with the action on stage. With staging by Heinz Zednik, the accomplished Viennese dramatic tenor, and under the baton of Johannes Wildner, a name now synonymous with Strauss, let the voices of this cast of richly individual singers carry you away like that champagne that flows so freely through Die Fledermaus.

Afternoon of the last day of the year. Gabriel von Eisenstein, staying with his wife Rosalinde at their villa outside Vienna, is angry: a mistake by his attorney is about to land him in jail. But at the urging of his friend Dr. Falke, he is secretly headed that evening for a ball at Prince Orlofsky's mansion, giving his wife the pretext that he is turning himself in at the jail. At the elegant ball, following Falke's instructions, Einstein has disguised himself as someone else; he flirts with a beautiful masked woman, not realizing it is his wife. Reporting to jail the next morning, Einstein accuses Rosalinde, who has also come running to the jail, of adultery. But she pulls out the watch he had given the masked woman the night before, and he is caught red-handed. Falke, the mastermind of this farce, now appears, and there is a grand finale-blaming it all on champagne.