The Bat

ABOUT THE EVENT

Many classical operettas have beautiful music, but the plot is too naive for today's viewer.

The few works that will stand the test before today's audience include Strauss' The Bat – an operetta written to the libretto by the writing duo, Carl Haffner and Richard Gene, based on the vaudeville ‘Réveillon’ by Henry Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy. 

The Bat was first performed with great success in 1874 at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna from where it flew to operetta and later opera stages around the world. It still passes for one of the best-written classical operettas. A witty story from a bourgeois environment about Gabriel Eisenstein who has to go to prison for a few days, his wife Rosalinda who is visited by her old love, tenor Alfred, and the revenge of dr. Falke, who wants revenge on Gabriel for his joke when he let him run across the city in a bat costume, is accompanied by other plot vicissitudes of the story, and set to the sparkling music of Strauss.      

CAST AND CREATIVE

Gabriel von Eisenstein: Petr Horák, Josef Moravec
Rosalinda, jeho žena: Lucie Hájková, Ivana Veberová
Adéla, jejich komorná: Radka Sehnoutková, Vanda Šípová
Ida, sestra Adély: Radka Sehnoutková / Petra Tion
Alfréd, tenorista: Michal Bragagnolo, Tomáš Kořínek
Doktor Falke, advokát: Jakub Hliněnský, Jan Ježek
Frank, ředitel věznice: Jan Hnyk, Jevhen Šokalo
Princ Orlovský: Jana Foff Tetourová, Jana Piorecká
Doktor Blind, notář: Jiří Kubík
Frosch, žalářník: Jan Ježek, Dalibor Tolaš
Ivan, sluha: Roman Dušek

Sbor a orchestr opery DJKT,

Balet DJKT

Hudební nastudování: Jiří Petrdlík
Dirigenti: Jiří Petrdlík, Jakub Zicha
Režie: Martin Otava
Scéna: Lukáš Kuchinka
Kostýmy: Dana Haklová
Světelný design: Antonín Pfleger
Dramaturgie: Zbyněk Brabec
Choreografie: Martin Šinták
Sbormistr: Jakub Zicha
Asistent režie: Michal Lieberzeit
Hudební příprava: Maxim Averkiev, Martin Marek
Inspice: Petra Tolašová