English National Opera - Die Fledermaus Reviews
28 March 2024
General scene
Edgaras Montvidas, Jennifer Holloway
Julia Sporsen, Tom Randle
Rhian Lois
Richard Burkhard

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Die Fledermaus

English National Opera


No. of reviews: 13

All on all, a truly wretched evening
11 Oct 13 / Musical Criticism
Emotional trauma and tortured self-examination at the opera
8 Oct 13 / New Statesman
ENO’s new Fledermaus is anything but a traditional version of the show
3 Oct 13 / The Stage
Christopher Alden's staging of Strauss's operetta is enjoyable and at times laugh-out-loud funny
2 Oct 13 / Express
Alden's psychobabble misses the point of Strauss' fizzing operetta
2 Oct 13 / Opera Britannia
Johann Strauss's essential Viennese operetta gets an aggressive makeover, and disaster results
2 Oct 13 / The Arts Desk
A thoroughly enjoyable ride
2 Oct 13 / What's on Stage
Die Fledermaus is the lightest of inconsequential tales but you’d never know it
2 Oct 13 / Classical Source
Director Christopher Alden destroys everything Strauss’s operetta stands for
2 Oct 13 / Financial Times
ENO's new production of Die Fledermaus is more sitcom than psychological drama
2 Oct 13 / Telegraph
A batty evening, in the wrong way
2 Oct 13 / Independent
Christopher Alden's staging of Strauss's operetta is a disappointingly unfunny, unsexy show
2 Oct 13 / The Guardian
Christopher Alden’s new Freud-inspired production is an exploration of transgressive sexual desire
1 Oct 13 / Evening Standard
Production details
Cast
Randle, Sporsen, Lois, Marchione, Montvidas, Burkhard, Butteriss, Shore, Holloway, Pohl
(c) Kim (d) Alden
Performance dates
30 September, 2, 5, 9, 11, 15, 18, 22, 24, 31 October, 6 November 2013
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