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DIE FLEDERMAUS [musical show]
- Title
- DIE FLEDERMAUS [musical show]
- Alternate Titles
- THE BAT
- GAY ROSALINDA
- THE MERRY COUNTESS
- NIGHT BIRDS
- OH, ROSALINDA!
- ROSALINDA
- Opening Date
- April 05, 1874
- Genre
- musical show
- Production and Recordings Information
- 1912 medley by Victor Light Opera Company. MUSIC & WORDS: Johann Strauss Jr, Arthur Anderson, others. (78/Vic 31875, titled "The Merry Countess," as was the 1912 New York prod)
- 1945 records by members of 1945 London prod., titled "Gay Rosalinda." COND: Richard Tauber. Orchestra: Overture (78/Col(E) DX-1203) Irene Ambrus: "Laughing Song," "Audition Song" (78/Col(E) DB-2187)
- 1959 London prod. WORDS: Christopher Hassall. COND: Vilem Tausky. CAST: John Heddle Nash, Alexander Young, Victoria Elliott, Marion Studholme, Rowland Jones, Frederick Sharp, Anna Pollak. (HMV(E) CSD-1266; CD/Classics for Pleasure(E) 85002-2, with The Gypsy Baron.)
- 1963 studio prod. WORDS: Mel Mandel, Norman Sachs. COND: Oscar Danon. CAST: Anna Moffo, Sergio Franchi, Rise Stevens, Jeanette Scovotti, Richard Lewis, George London, John Hauxvell. (RCA LSC-2728; CD/BMG 09026-63468-2.)
- Metropolitan Opera (New York) prod. WORDS: Howard Dietz. COND: Tibor Kozma. CAST: Heidi Krall, Laurel Hurley, Mildred Miller, Brian Sullivan, Thomas Hayward, John Brownlee, Clifford Harvuot. (Metropolitan Opera MO-518)
- Soundtrack of 1955 film (titled "Oh, Rosalinda!"). VOCALS: Walter Berry (for Anton Walbrook), Michael Redgrave, Sari Barabas (for Ludmilla Tcherina), Alexander Young (for Mel Ferrer), Annelise Rothenberger, Anthony Quayle, Denis Dowling (for Dennis Price). (Mercury MG-20145)
- Studio prod. MUSIC: Johann Strauss Jr. WORDS: Norman Sachs, Mel Mandel. ORCH: Henri René. COND: Lehman Engel. CAST: Anna Moffo, Jeanette Scovotti, Rosalind Elias, William Lewis, Robert Nagy, Lee Cass, William Chapman. (Reader's Digest RDS-40-1, with Mademoiselle Modiste)
- Studio prod. WORDS: Howard Dietz. COND: Eugene Ormandy. CAST: Lily Pons, Ljuba Welitch, Richard Tucker, Charles Kullman, Martha Lipton, John Brownlee. (Col SL-108)
- Note
- From: Show Music on Record by Jack Raymond
- DigitalID
- loc.natlib.smor.18740405
Last Updated: 08-23-2012