What Does Deflatermouse Mean?

Die Fledermaus is an operetta composed by Johann Strauss II to a German libretto by Karl Haffner and Richard Genée, which premiered in 1874.

What is the meaning of Deflatermouse?

Die Fledermaus (meaning “the bat” in German) continues to Act II at Prince Orlofsky's villa where a grand masked ball is being held to entertain his royalty with Falke's masterfully designed “The Bat's Revenge.” An evening of mistaken identities, Champagne toasts and gorgeous costumes built by Utah Opera lend ...

Why is Die Fledermaus called the bat?

Prince Orlofsky asks Falke about his “Bat” story and Eisenstein overhears, boasting that two years before, after a similar costume party, he left a drunken Falke to sleep it off in a public square dressed as a bat—thus Falke's nickname, Dr. Fledermaus, which is German for “bat.”

Alexander Ross

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