Culture Magazine
Fresh from the San Francisco Opera, Johann Strauss Jr.’s ever-green masterpiece is the most inebriating operetta ever written. Watching it leaves you woozy, the famous waltzes mellowing and marinating an audience in their maudlin magnificence. The incarnation of holiday abandonment, especially New Year’s Eve fetes with its twin toasts to champagne, Die Fledermaus delivers three acts of topsy-turvy celebrations. (read more, including video montage...)