Johann Strauss II - Die Fledermaus Overture

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ClassicalMusicOnly | August 17, 2008

Title : Johann Strauss II - Die Fledermaus Overture From Wikipedia, Die Fled...

ClassicalMusicOnly | August 17, 2008

Title : Johann Strauss II - Die Fledermaus Overture

From Wikipedia,
Die Fledermaus (in English: The Bat;' in French: La Chauve-souris') is an operetta composed by Johann Strauss II to a German libretto by Carl Haffner and Richard Genée.

The original source for Die Fledermaus is a farce by German playwright Julius Roderich Benedix (1811--1873), Das Gefängnis (The Prison). Another source is a French vaudeville play, Le réveillon, by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy. This was first translated by Carl Haffner into a non-musical play to be produced in Vienna. However, the peculiarly French custom of the réveillon (a midnight supper party) caused problems, which were solved by the decision to adapt the play as a libretto for Johann Strauss, with the réveillon replaced by a Viennese ball. At this point Haffner's translation was handed over for adaptation to Richard Genée, who subsequently claimed not only that he had made a fresh translation from scratch but that he had never even met Haffner.

The operetta premièred on April 5, 1874 at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna, Austria and has been part of the regular operetta repertoire ever since. It currently appears as number 19 on Opera America's list of the 20 most-performed operatic works in North America.

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  • this will allways remind me of tom and jerry =))) good old days!!!!

  • want to know what society is made of? look, this classical music page has 60.000 hits.

    a stupid guy elsewhere placed a cut off picture of a porn actress and so far has 111 million hits. Do you guys love democracy?

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  • @ratchetfp Athens was a democracy, yes. And Rome COPIED Athens, as far as government was concerned, but called it something else. A republic is a state where representatives are chosen by votes entered by the people. A (modern) democracy is a system where the power is given through an electoral system. Rome may have been a dictatorship for 1/2 it's lifespan, but the most SUCCESSFUL overall 1/2 was the first. And it always takes a while to evolve PEACEFULLY from monarchy-democracy.

  • @spinynorman230 Ancient Greece was neither stable nor a democracy, save for Athens; Rome never aspired to democracy (republic is not synonymous with that term) and was an authoritarian empire for nearly half of its history, and the development of England into a true parliamentary system took quite a while, being interspersed with periods of strong monarchy or dictatorship. The United States is really the only example that works for you here, though even that's debatable.

  • Thank you Tom and Jerry.

  • Sensational music

  • @Coasterfreak17789 me too,always ^^

  • haha i love this piece.. and i will always think of tom and jerry when i hear this...

  • @intelligenceneeded

    .... what does that have to do with democracy?

  • @intelligenceneeded yes we do... the longest lasting stable governments in western history were democracies. Greece, Rome, US, England. Besides, that has nothing whatsoever to do with democracy, or culture, it has to do with biology. the real question is: how many people liked/disliked it? 131,000 views and 366 likes, only 5 dislikes, thats pretty damn good if you ask me.

  • A masterpiece that will be forever beautiful and withiut words.

  • the flying and twittering of the intro 230 leads into like a rising bouncy thing. 330 its going to fast and not properly emphasized. so second rate. poorly done.

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