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J. Strauss - Die Fledermaus

Eberhard Wächter (Actor), Wolfgang Brendel (Actor), Carlos Kleiber (Director), Rated:
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4.6 out of 5 stars 17 customer reviews
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  • Actors: Eberhard Wächter, Wolfgang Brendel, Pamela Coburn, Brigitte Fassbaender, Benno Kusche
  • Directors: Carlos Kleiber, Otto Schenk
  • Format: Multiple Formats, Subtitled, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, NTSC
  • Language: German (Dolby Digital 5.1), German (DTS 5.1), German (Stereo), French (Dolby Digital 5.1)
  • Subtitles: German, English, Chinese, French
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rated:
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  • Studio: Deutsche Grammophon
  • DVD Release Date: January 11, 2005
  • Run Time: 155 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00062RBO0
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #67,631 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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5.0 out of 5 starsExuberant Fledermaus
By Atlantico on March 16, 2005
The previous reviewer had it right--this is a "traditional" Fledermaus for lovers of Strauss and Vienna. The production brims over with comic high spirits, while Carlos Kleiber's sensuous, echt-Viennese musical idiom makes you forget that the theater and orchestra are not Austrian but German. The mostly Austrian male and mostly British, and very attractive, female principals are outstanding singers and comic actors. Tenor Eberhard Wachter, late in his career, creates a vain, blustering, but always lovable Herr von Eisenstein, the wayward husband of classic comedy. The hilarious jailhouse third act with its tipsy guard and warden likewise feeds on central European ways of making jokes. The sound is full-bodied and detailed, but the video has a slight yellowish hue, much less pronounced than in the old laserdisc version. Fledermice can't go far wrong with this DVD.

The competing Glyndebourne production on Opus Arte DVD is a different creature, a sumptuously trendy, sarcastic (and later, with sharper digital video) production. It has a dark, post-modern ideological agenda, familiar and superfluous. The libretto has been rewritten--in English, then translated back into German and re-translated into English sub-/supertitles!) to highlight social hypocrisy and women's oppression by--but you know the rest. Strauss and his librettists knew and described all of this perfectly well too but they managed OK without the pretentiousness and penis jokes. Glyndebourne's Fledermaus is impressive musically and technically, but its spiritual sourness may leave devoted operetta fans feeling a bit used.
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5.0 out of 5 starsExcellent staging, singing, acting, orchestra, conducting make this DVD a joy
By Alan Majeska on October 15, 2005
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Carlos Kleiber (1930-2004) was often considered the most enigmatic conductor of the post World War II era. The son of noted conductor Erich Kleiber (1891-1956), Carlos never leaned on his father's reputation for fame, but made his own way. Carlos Kleiber disliked the recording process and made very few recordings for commerical labels: Beethoven Symphonies 5 and 7 (DG, Vienna Philhamormonic); Brahms Symphony 4 (DG, Vienna Philharmonic); Schubert Symphonies 3 + 8 (DG, Vienna Philharmonic); Verdi: La Traviata, with Placido Domingo and Ileana Cotrubas (DG, Bavarian State opera); Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (DG, Dresden State Opera); Weber: Der Freischutz (DG, Dresden opera); Strauss: Die Fledermaus (DG, 1975 - different singers than this recording, but with the same orchestra). Most of Kleiber's other recordings are from live concerts on CD or DVD format. There may be as many or more Kleiber recordings on DVD, as in CD medium.

That said, it is nice to have any new Carlos Kleiber recording, and this one is no exception. You can tell from the first bars Kleiber dearly loved this music, and has orchestra and soloists on their toes every measure. The Overture sizzles and crackles, and sparkles with joy and life. The singers are all excellent, although I must confess a reservation about Eberhard Waechter, who here is an excellent comic actor, yet his voice wobbles in sustained passages, and he sounds frantic and strained at times. Pamela Coburn, Janet Perry, Wolfgang Brendel, Franz Muxeneder, Benno Kusche, and Brigitte Fassbaender are all excellent in every way.

I really enjoyed this as a video, especially the Act II Party scene, where the music and flow are very engaging.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsChampagne Uncorked!!
By F. S. L'hoir VINE VOICE on January 2, 2013
I don't know whether it is the bottle of Prosecco I drank while watching this production of "Die Fledermaus", but I enjoyed it immensely.

No, it cannot compare to being at the Wiener Staatsoper in 1975, in my downstairs Stehplatz, and actually participating in the fun (with famous guest artists in the second act), but spending a New Year's eve in the company of Carlos Kleiber and the Bavarian Staatsoper and orchestra certainly is the next best thing.

Strauss's music is, of course, superb; the settings are delightful (the depressingly bourgeois home of the Eisensteins, the glittering elegance of Orlovsky's palazzo--the revolving stage allowed us to stroll along with the guests into the dining salon); and the dingy jail. The jokes (of Eisenstein and the Governor of the Prison pretending to be French; and Frosch, the jailer, and his Slivowitz and the hat that he can't quite hang on the peg) are as funny as ever (and even funnier enjoying a bottle of bubbly along with the acotrs).

My only quibble with this DVD, which I bought some years ago, so it probably has been fixed, has to do with some of the technical aspects. I decided to watch with the German subtitles so that I could follow along with the singing. This was fine, as long as everyone was actually singing, but as soon as the dialogue came on [at a much lower volume], off went the subtitles. I finally concluded that the producers of the DVD assumed that anyone who wanted the German subtitles would not need them for the dialogue, since it was their own language. This, however, as those of us who watch Shakespeare or Masterpiece Theatre will know, is not true. I found it annoying to have to turn up the volume to understand the dialogue.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Our new years eve movie every year. This replaced a VHS tape.

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5.0 out of 5 starsNo Bats in the Belfry Here

Excellent

Published 21 months ago by "Professional" Volunteer
5.0 out of 5 starsSpirited performance

Janet Kenny

A fine spirited stage performance. Although I sometimes wished for a little more elegance, this production realised the cheerful vulgarity of the story. Read more

Published on January 4, 2014 by J. A. Kenny
5.0 out of 5 starsA champaigne-bubbling performance of one of the greatest operettas,...

For those who want a performance staged the way the composer and librettists intended and conducted in a way that sparkles and bubbles, plus is well-sung and inventively and... Read more

Published on March 22, 2013 by Winfield Hutton
3.0 out of 5 starsGreat performance, but poor video quality.

The performance for this recording is on par with that of others of Die Fledermaus. Where it falls down is in the quality of the DVD. Read more

Published on January 23, 2013 by Gorobei
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I liked the Opera! The Die Fiedermaus - Batman are a good one! I recomended to you. It arribe ontime and in good conditions

Published on January 7, 2013 by Tarcisio Valdes
5.0 out of 5 starsJust the best

J. Strauss - Die FledermausI have been chasing this version for ages.Should have gone to Amazon in the first place as one always deals with this most trusted organization. Read more

Published on February 9, 2012 by Thomas D. Knight
3.0 out of 5 starsDisappointing

This is a lame performance compared to the Royal Opera one with Kiri Te Kanawa and Hermann Prey. This version has a leading lady who does not understand her character, and a... Read more

Published on June 11, 2011 by Marjatta
5.0 out of 5 starsMy favorite operetta

Between Carlos Kleiber's conducting, and Otto Scheil's direction, the entire operetta is delightful. The cast from Eberhard Wachter, to Franz Muxender's Fosch, everyone acts. Read more

Published on May 3, 2011 by Jeffrey J. Greene
5.0 out of 5 starsJohann would have loved this one

Although purely speculative & presumptuous, my guess is that Johann Strauss would have loved this production.
Carlos Kleiber and his orchestra were spectacular. Read more

Published on April 27, 2011 by Fair and balanced critic

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