#PickoftheWeek | Opera to make four-show run in Queens
BY QEDC It's In Queens
Revenge is a dish best served in a bat costume.
The opera Die Fledermaus will play at LeFrak Concert Hall in Flushing on Feb. 23 through Feb. 25 at 7:30 pm and on Feb. 26 at 3 pm. Tickets are $20 each.
Though originally written in German by Johann Strauss – “Die Fledermaus” means “The Bat” — the Aaron Copland School of Music and Queens College Opera will perform this comic masterpiece in English with some of the original details removed. Alternating casts, guest artists, and a 22-piece orchestra will fill the stage, while Elizabeth Hastings, who holds a Masters Degree from Queens College, will conduct.
The opera’s setting is Vienna in 1874. Dr. Falke has taken three years to develop a plan to get back at his friend, Gabriel von Eisenstein, who played a practical joke on him during a drunken college party. Enter the eccentric Russian Prince Oflofksy, who invites them to a New Year’s Eve costume ball.
Among waltzes, champagne, flirting, and a few cases of mistaken identity, Eisenstein gets a huge dose of his own medicine, served by Dr. Falke, who is wearing a bat costume.
Click here to watch a trailer.
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Images: Kupferberg Center for the Arts