One can understand only too well that Adele no longer wants to be an object of male desire and prefers to flee forward into the third act, where she serves as a “frog” serving local ex-politicians. It’s nice that the Count shows remorse and wants to justify his infidelities: With “Fledermaus reloaded im Janoska Style”, the music festival lets Steyr Strauss’ operetta, directed by Susanne Sommer, tell a new story about the original characters, who question and comment on themselves and their roles. Musically, too, there is a spirit of optimism: pianist Frantisek Janoska brilliantly arranged Strauss’ work for the family Slovakian Janoska Ensemble, with waltz bliss meeting jazz and Latin and unloading as concentrated energy in the castle moat, which is decorated with Georg Lindorfer’s acanthus ornaments, in a masterly virtuoso and musically explosive manner . The ensemble, which loves to sing and play, braves the rain like the audience: Martina Dorak is rebellious Adele, frog and storyteller. Herbert Lippert as Gabriel von Eisenstein is the comedian, Stephanie Fritz his elegant Rosalinde and Christian Drescher her Alfred and Dr. Blind. Josef Luftensteiner ponders as Dr. Falke after revenge, Daniel Ohlenschläger imprisoned the wrong man as “Frank” and Andrea Purtic as Orlofsky has a brilliant idea: a Federal Chancellor in exile or a Vice-Chancellor on Ibiza would also be suitable as operetta characters. One cannot entirely avoid the impression that a work becomes a parody of itself. Why not really create something new, Janoska style?
Source: Nachrichten
