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Viennese operetta, the champagne of the Habsburgs, is doing its biggest U.S. business in years. In Manhattan during the past few months the lilting waltzes of Chocolate Soldier, The Merry Widow, Gypsy Baron, Beggar Student and Fledermaus have drawn throngs of moist-eyed listeners to Carnegie Hall and the Lewisohn Stadium. Produced in German by troupes of Viennese refugees, or in English by personable companies of youthful U.S. singers, Johann Strauss, Karl Millocker and Franz Lehar have played to packed houses for weeks at a time...
Last week Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus (The Bat), considered by many to be the greatest of all operettas, bubbled out of the high-brow auditoriums and hit Broadway. Broadway's Bat had undergone some important changes since Johann Strauss composed it. The changes were the work of famed Viennese Director Max Reinhardt, who used the same version he produced in Berlin 13 years ago and was afraid to take to Vienna for fear of scandalizing the tradition-minded Viennese. Director Reinhardt has whipped Fledermaus' drama into a light fluff, flavored it with a medley of Strauss...
...despite this modern dress, Rosalinda looked and sounded enough like Fledermaus to leave oldtime Strauss fans gasping with pleasure. Strauss's rose-tinted melodies (conducted by Viennese Maestro Erich Korngold, specially imported from Hollywood for the job) set its opening-night audience to swaying in their seats, caused at least one white-haired fan, Walter Damrosch, to go shagging down the aisle like a Habsburg jitterbug...
...loud Philadelphian applause testified that it was all perfectly natural. The opera, old Vienna's "grand operetta" Die Fledermaus (The Bat) by Waltz King Johann Strauss, furnishes a place for interpolated entertainment. To hire Larry Adler for The Bat was just one more bright idea of the Philadelphia Opera Company, a young, English-singing troupe which has been tossing off bright operatic ideas for three seasons. Besides the solo Blue Danube, Larry Adler had two en cores up his sleeve-Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody. Ravel...
...Metropolitan Opera visits to the Academy, the bat nearly flew into the broad mouth of Tenor Beniamino Gigli; once it flew rings around Basso Feodor Chaliapin. Last week, by lying low, the bat muffed a punnish chance-a performance of Johann Strauss's bubbling, rollicking The Bat (Die Fledermaus), by the best troupe Philadelphia has had in years...