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...same bill is "Die Fledermaus," a 1948 version of Strauss' opera. In it most of the virtues and vices of "The Marriage of Figaro" are reversed. There is little of Strauss' music and a lot of good acting. The orange-tinted film is the most unusual part of the movie. If it's Germany's answer to glorious Technicolor, Hollywood has nothing to worry about in that department...
...Mozart's comic opera, Cosi fan tutte (last Met performance: 1928), will be redone from scratch-also in English-with new sets by Rolf (Don Carlo, Fledermaus) Gerard. Stage director: Broadway star Alfred Lunt...
...Metropolitan Opera is closing its season with La Boheme tonight, Fledermaus and La Traviata tomorrow afternoon and evening, Fledermaus again Thursday night, La Boheme Friday, and Barbiere di Siviglia and Fledermaus next Saturday...
...biggest box-office hit of the Metropolitan Opera season (16 sellout performances so far) is the Met's bubbly production of Fledermaus. Last week General Manager Rudolf Bing announced that Fledermaus will be hitting the road next fall and winter in a coast-to-coast, 30-week tour of some 40 cities. Object: added revenue for the Met both in box-office receipts and increased royalties from promotion of the Met recording of Fledermaus for Columbia Records. Said Bing: "It's all in line with our new slogan, 'The Met Helps Itself...