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Die Fledermaus, Pride Edition
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Die Fledermaus - Pride Edition
A Queer Take on “Die Fledermaus” for Pride Month
In German language with German and English surtitles
1 Intermission
Every year in June, Pride Month celebrates the visibility of queer culture, but also commemorates the fight against marginalisation and discrimination. Pride is resistance and joie de vivre! And what work would be better suited to take a fresh look at eroticism, love and social expectations on the occasion of this festival than Johann Strauss' Die Fledermaus?
Operetta of all things? Yes - no genre is more queer! Subversive and revealing from the very beginning, it has always been a play with gender roles and desires. With masquerade and transformation, it tells of people who take on - or have to take on - other identities. What changes when relationships are not automatically heterosexual? When social norms produce not just pleasurable deceptions, but existential lies?
Moritz Franz Beichl has written a new version of the text for this pillar of the repertoire. No matter how you love or define yourself - celebrate Pride Month with us, the operetta and the liberating laughter about the masks that society wants to impose on us.
Program and cast
Conductor: Tobias Wögerer
Volksoper Vienna
Public transport:
Underground line U6
Trams 40, 41, 42
Bus 40A
Stop "Währinger Straße / Volksoper"
A taxi stand is located at Währinger Gürtel.
Parking garages in WIFI and AKH
The Volksoper is Vienna’s main stage for operetta, opera, musicals and ballet, offering sophisticated musical entertainment. Colourful, eclectic and full of vitality, it is the only theatre dedicated to the genre of operetta.
Operetta belongs to Vienna and Vienna installed it at the home of operetta, Volksopera Vienna, which thereupon became the leading operetta house in the world. First class singers, actors and dancers together with a versatile orchestra cunjure up a musical firework display every evening.
Johann Strauss, Franz Lehár, Emmerich Kálmán wrote their world famous beloved melodies for operettas such as “The Fledermaus”, “The Merry Widow” and “The Csárdás Princess”. A visit to at least one of these operettas at the Volksopera Vienna is a must for every visitor to Vienna!
Also performed are operas from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, as well as classic musicals and ballet. In addition, the Volksoper has a fifth longstanding and proven speciality: it stages soirées, cabaret and burlesque performances under the name of “Volksoper Spezial”.
In the repertory theatre, which seats 1,337 persons, some 300 performances of around 35 different productions are staged every year between September and June.
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