Fledermaus; Benefit of the Free Training and Cooking Schools

“A representation of ‘Die Fledermaus,’ an opera bouffe by Herr Johann Strauss, was last evening given at the Academy of Music, for the benefit of the Women’s Free Cooking and Training Schools. ‘Die Fledermaus,’ anglice ‘The Bat,’ embodies a very complicated story, told in the style peculiar to the writers of French vaudevilles. The music to which the words are wedded is lively and fluent—gossipy, we might almost say—but it did not impress us as particularly original, and it does not contain any numbers of the sort which brought Parisian works of the same order into prompt and, seemingly, enduring popularity. ‘Die Fledermaus’ was very neatly acted, Fraulein Lina Mayr, a lady who has been giving a long series of entertainments at the Stadt Theatre, filling the principal rôle and giving every line of her part its fullest significance.”