The Bat by Strauss II, Od (2022/2022), Režija: Josef Ernst Köpplinger, Dirigent Anthony Bramall, Oleg Ptashnikov, Gärtnerplatztheater, Munich, Germany

Everyone deceives everyone here: Eisenstein has to go to prison for insulting officials. his friend dr. Falke advises him to hit the drums again beforehand at Prince Orlofsky's ball. Falke is secretly planning his revenge for Eisenstein once letting him stagger home dressed as a bat to the delight of the whole town. Eisenstein's wife Rosalinde uses her husband's absence to meet her lover Alfred (who then goes to prison instead of Eisenstein) and therefore releases her maid Adele. She, in turn, claims to have to see a sick aunt - in fact, she wants to go to the ball. There, everyone hides behind a false identity. The flirting is correspondingly unrestrained – until everyone meets again in prison the next morning … Johann Strauss' energetic and ambiguous operetta about the fragility of social facades has been in a champagne mood since its premiere in 1874. The Gärtnerplatztheater presents the classic in a new production by state director Josef E. Köpplinger.