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Die Fledermaus
Opens: 12/02/2011 Closes: 15/04/2011
UK Tour
John Copley directs Strauss's farcical comedy opera, in which characters go to great lengths to be unfaithful to one another - most notably at Prince Orlofsky's Ball, where Dr Falke attempts to punish Einsenstein for a prank that saw him ridiculed in the eyes of the town.
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The Arts Desk“WNO cast is clever, musicianly and highly watchable...” A middle-class fantasy of the high life with Vienna as its simulacrum, an immaculate study in vapid, delicious pleasure, a joke at the expense of expensive jokes and, above all, a dazzling score that never lets up from first note to last...
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The Stage“Operetta at its very best...” Simply fizzes with fun and tuneful gaiety. Copley’s uncluttered direction and sight gags are stylishly self-assured, set off by high society costumes by Deirdre Clancy and attractive settings by Tim Reed...
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The Telegraph“Skilfully directed by that splendid old pro John Copley... ” Diction is excellent throughout, and the dialogue in David Pountney’s breezy translation is crisply delivered without amplification, the result being that the jokes get genuine rather than politely forced laughs...
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Guardian“The musical jokes are delivered with panache...” Joanne Boag's Adele is very well sung and Mark Stone is a good Eisenstein, but the strongest performance is from conductor Thomas Rösner, his authentic, idiomatic Viennese style countering the dialogue's slow-mo effect...
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