This production of Johann Strauss II's Die Fledermaus is a part of a series of recorded operettas presented by Seefestspiele Mörbisch, or, in English, the Mörbisch Lake Festival, on the Oehms Classics label. Mörbisch Lake is a picaresque Austrian town near the Hungarian border that hosts an annual operetta festival in an open-air amphitheater capable of seating 6,000 operetta lovers. The festival, under the artistic direction of Harald Serafin, is swiftly becoming the Bayreuth of the operetta world, attracting some 200,000 ...
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This production of Johann Strauss II's Die Fledermaus is a part of a series of recorded operettas presented by Seefestspiele Mörbisch, or, in English, the Mörbisch Lake Festival, on the Oehms Classics label. Mörbisch Lake is a picaresque Austrian town near the Hungarian border that hosts an annual operetta festival in an open-air amphitheater capable of seating 6,000 operetta lovers. The festival, under the artistic direction of Harald Serafin, is swiftly becoming the Bayreuth of the operetta world, attracting some 200,000 visitors annually, but the promoters still can see the value of recording their productions for the benefit of attracting still more patronsOf course, Die Fledermaus is a monster in the world of operetta and many complete recordings have been made of it, the earliest one dating from 1907. This one was made in 1996 and, of the recent program of the Seefestspiele Mörbisch in seven operettas issued by Oehms Classics, this is the only recording that was made as a stand-alone project; at...
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