Word: fledermaus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Metropolitan Opera debut in La Boheme, Soprano Patrice Munsel found that the tabloids had headlined her in a real-life Fledermaus mixup. Ingenue leads: herself, and a coal-mine heiress named Sally Mundy. Male leads: Gregg Juarez, a sometime television actor, and Robert Schuler, a candy heir who shared the same apartment under an agreement that whoever married first would have his bride move in. Plot: Juarez falls in love with Munsel, Schuler with Mundy. Everyone decides this is a mistake, so they switch affections and engagements. Climax: denials on the part of everyone but Juarez. The whole story, they...
...that was missing was scenery. But an excellent cast, with John (Fledermaus) Brownlee as Harlequin, Soprano Martha Lipton as his wife, and Bass-Baritone James Pease as the priest, just about made up for that...
...Metropolitan's hilarious version of Die Fledermaus is playing nightly at 8:30 in the Opera House. This combination of Straus and slapstick will make a fine entertainment this afternoon, starting...
...Fledermaus," with its 18th Century plot, 19th Century music, and 20th Century libretto, has come to Boston again, and despite its second-string cast it is as effervescent as ever. The Metropolitan Opera Association's money-making venture pleased (and shocked) the large opening night crowd with lilting tunes and broad humor seldom presented on the operatic stage...
...difference between "Fledermaus" and more recent musical comedy is that "Fledermaus" has better music. Strauss' tunes are the most singable, danceable, and memorable to hit Boston in a long, long time. This operetta is more than just the best show in town--it is probably the best thing Boston will see all year...