Key facts
- Librettist
- Karl Haffner Richard Genée
- Language
- German
- Based on
- Gefängnis by Julius Roderich Benedix
- Premiere
- 5 April 1874 ( 1874-04-05 ) , Theater an der Wien , Vienna
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Encyclopedic overview
Die Fledermaus ( German: [diː ˈfleːdɐˌmaʊs], The Bat, sometimes called The Revenge of the Bat) is an operetta composed by Johann Strauss II to a German libretto by Karl Haffner and Richard Genée, which premiered in 1874.
Background
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Die Fledermaus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.