Die Fledermaus

The delightful Johann Strauss comic opera Die Fledermaus was mercilessly lampooned in this truly bizarre production For starters a framing device has been added After appearing in 300 consecutive appearances of Fledermaus which translates as The Bat the lead tenor Georg Alexander imagines that hes seeing bats everywhere Driven a bit over the edge by all this he falls asleep and has a nightmare about the opera with a group of nonsingers cast in the leading roles The original libretto about romantic assignations political imprisonments and mistaken identity is burlesqued to the hilt at one point the hero finds out that his prison cell is surrounded by rubber tubes