Shadbolt Centre for the Arts

Burnaby Lyric Opera
February 23, 28 & March 1, 8:00pm
Februray 25, 27, 2:00pm
By Johann Strauss Jr.
Stage directed by Matthew Bissett, music directed by David Boothroyd

Gabriel von Eisenstein plays a practical joke on Dr. Falke. A year later, Eisenstein is saying a tearful farewell to his wife as he prepares to go to jail for 14 days for insulting a public official. Falke sees this as a perfect “recipe for revenge”.  And revenge is a glass best served filled with the finest Champagne! Die Fledermaus is a bubbly confection of score-settling, infidelity and mistaken identities, starting at the wildest Masked Ball in 1870’s Vienna and ending the next morning in the chaos of a county jail. A festival of sparkling tunes bound together by a plot and a cast of characters that makes a virtue of absurdity.