Tag Archives: Die Fledermaus

Die Fledermaus, Grange Festival, July 2025

Posted on 7 July 2025

Hugely entertaining shenanigans on stage, all sung and spoken in a wonderful English version with jokes comprehensible to a modern audience — see my review in The Article. This performance rounded out opera productions at the Grange Festival for summer 2025, though they still have other stage performances in store.

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Die Fledermaus, English National Opera, ENO, London Coliseum, October 2013

Posted on 10 October 2013

This new production is by Christopher Alden, twin brother of David Alden whose many successful ENO works include the present, very successful Peter Grimes production, being revived in Jan/Feb 2014. By contrast, Christopher’s Fledermaus production, which I was not able to see on the first night, attracted very negative reviews and during the interval I …

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