Key facts
- Librettist
- Karl Haffner Richard Genée
- Language
- German
- Based on
- Gefängnis by Julius Roderich Benedix
- Premiere
- 5 April 1874 ( 1874-04-05 ) , Theater an der Wien , Vienna
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Wikidata facts
- Composer
- Johann Strauss II
- Librettist
- Karl Haffner
- Image
- Opera in the Heights, Die Fledermaus - 0442.jpg
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- Commons category
- Die Fledermaus
- date of first performance
- 1874-04-05
- language of work or name
- German
- location of first performance
- Theater an der Wien
- native label
- Die Fledermaus
- inception
- 1874-00-00
- number of parts of this work
- 3
- after a work by
- Ludovic Halévy
- production date
- 1874-00-00
- form of creative work
- operetta
- title
- Die Fledermaus
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Encyclopedic overview
Die Fledermaus ( German: [diː ˈfleːdɐˌmaʊs], The Bat, sometimes called The Revenge of the Bat) is an operetta composed by Johann Strauss II to a German libretto by Karl Haffner and Richard Genée, which premiered in 1874.
Background
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Die Fledermaus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.