Comedy Music
Performances from Pamela Coburn, Brigitte Fassbaender, Janet Perry, Eberhard Wachter, the Choir und Ballet der Bayerischen Staatsoper, and the Bayerisches Staatsorchester. Rosalinde, wife of Eisenstein, is having an affair with Alfred. Eisenstein is due to begin a prison sentence the next morning, and the prison governor, Frank, is expected to collect him at any moment. However, Eisenstein allows himself to be talked into attending a fancy dress ball by Dr Falke, and when Frank arrives to find Alfred with Rosalinde, he assumes him to be Eisenstein and carts him off to prison.
Directed by
Brian Large, Otto Schenk
Written by
Johann Strauss
Franz Muxeneder
Frosch
Otto Schenk
Janet Perry
Adele
Ferry Gruber
Dr. Blind
Benno Kusche
Frank
Pamela Coburn
Rosalinde
Eberhard Wächter
Gabriel von Eisenstein
Brigitte Fassbaender
Prinz Orlovsky
Josef Hopferwieser
Alfred
Wolfgang Brendel
Dr. Falke
Ivan Unger
Ivan
Irene Steinbeisser
Ida
Carlos Kleiber

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