New-Yorker Stadt-Theater Opera: Fledermaus

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“‘Die Fledermaus,’ Strauss’s comic opera in three acts, will be given tonight for the third time at the Stadt-Theater. The opera was so well received on its first performance and so excellently cast and rehearsed, that the house will likely be filled again tonight. Fräulein Lina Mayr takes the female lead of ‘Rosalinde’ and performs with rare mastery and perfection. The operetta will be performed every evening this week.”

“‘Die Fledermaus,’ the new melody-rich operetta of the Viennese Waltz King Johann Strauss, with its waltz and polka motives and with its bordering-on-nonsensical libretto, was given again last night at the Stadt-Theater with Lina Mayr in the leading role. It is an honor, a testament to the Germans that Strauss looked to a French text for this German operetta. Unlike his French neighbor, a German would not have been capable of writing a disaster such as this. After the French had done their part, Johann Strauss appointed some literary handy-man to then translate the French nonsense into German. This is the history of the ‘Fledermaus’ libretto.”