The Bat by Strauss II, T 25 jan 2017, No (2017/2017), Režisēja Helena Kaut-Howson, Diriģents Jacek Boniecki, Opera Wrocławska, Wrocław, Poland

The Bat's Revenge is, above all, a masterpiece, legally belonging to the treasury of the opera repertoire, although it was also the pinnacle of the operetta theater in its time. Currently, the operetta as a genre has already experienced a bit and is evolving towards a musical, yet Zemsta batie remains a brilliant work, enchanting in its freshness and musical richness, which works well as an operatic and theatrical piece at the same time. Besides, the work gained such an opinion even when the operetta theater was still unparalleled in popularity. The great composer and conductor Gustaw Mahler chose Revenge of the Bat himselfand conducted it as early as the 1880s, and when he became director of the Vienna Opera, he included it in the opera repertoire.