Carl Haffner

The Bat is now playing at Theater St. Gallen. Performances run through January 20, 2023.

The libretto is by Richard Genée after Carl Haffner’s German translation of the Vandeville Le Re’veillon by Henri Meilhac & Ludovic Halèvy and The Prison, a farce by Julius Roderich Benedix.

Die Fledermaus plays i??February 20 & 21, 2020 at 8PM at St. Mark's Episcopal Church, 140 South Finley Avenue Basking Ridge, NJ.

La Compañía Nacional de Ópera (CNO) del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes cerrará su temporada 2018 con El murciélago, de Johann Strauss II, una de las operetas más representadas en el mundo.

On August 1, 2017, Santa Fe Opera presented Johann Strauss II's operetta, DIE FLEDERMAUS (THE BAT). The original German libretto was by Carl Haffner and Richard Genée. The audience heard it sung in an English translation by Ruth and Thomas Martin with dialogue adapted by Charles Ludlam from W. S. Gilbert's play ON BAIL. Gilbert based his play on a work by Meilhac and Halévy.

Light Opera Works' 2016 season continues with MAME (August 20-28), LET ME ENTERTAIN YOU: JULE STYNE'S GREATEST HITS Songs from GYPSY, FUNNY GIRL and more, (October 7-16), and DIE FLEDERMAUS (December 26-January 1, 2017).