December 31st, 2024 – January 5th, 2025 Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Rome
Duration: not indicated
Cabaret Maxim’s in Rome
Every night, Johann puts on a bat’s wings and flies off. Bella, troubled by her husband’s pleasure-seeking at night, consults with her friend Ulrich and starts a strategy of disguising herself as a mysterious beauty to seduce her husband. One night, Johann is captivated by her at a cafe and chases her without knowing that she is his own wife.He is soon involved a fracas and arrested. What will happen to the married couple’s love?
La Chauve-souris combines refined humor, urbane sensibility, and a touch of sadness at the end. Premiered by the Ballet National de Marseille in Monte Carlo in 1979, the ballet piece is based on the classic comic operetta Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss II.