2008/2009 Season Opera
[Repertory]

Johann Strauss II : Die Fledermaus

OPERA HOUSE

Gabriel von Eisenstein	:	Johannes Martin Kränzle
Rosalinde	:	Noemi Nadelmann
Frank	:	Rupert Bergmann
Prinz Orlofsky	:	Elisabeth Kulman
Alfred	:	Otsuki Takashi
Dr. Falke	:	Markus Brück
Adele	:	Ofelia Sala
Dr. Blind	:	Okubo Mitsuya
Frosch	:	Franz Suhrada
Ida	:	Hirai Kaori
Chorus	:	New National Theatre Chorus
Orchestra	:	Tokyo Symphony Orchestra

January/February 2009	27	29	31	1
	Tue	Thu	Sat	Sun
2:00			X	X
6:30	X	X

Doors will open 45 minutes before the opening of the performance.

	S	A	B	C	D	Z
Price(yen)	23,100	18,900	12,600	7,350	4,200	1,500

The premiere of this production was in June 2006. This will be the second performance of this production. We can represent six great singers for the main roles. Alexander Joel is a distinguished conductor and has been very active notably in Germany with wide repertoire. Otsuki Takashi, a young rapidly rising tenor, is cast as Alfred. This is a well balanced and suitable cast to celebrate the new year.

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.