A First Night at the Opera: Die Fledermaus

 
 

Don’t get me wrong — opera singers are basically people with a secret singing superpower walking among us, and these are some of the best in the country — it was just a delightful surprise to hear it from people doing that dance with the crooked elbows and little kicks (the Happy Prospector, maybe? I don’t know dance, either).

The show, which was written by Johan Strauss II and premiered in 1874, is an all-time classic, and its accessible frivolity is part of why director Joel Ivany wanted to stage it here.