New Year Celebrations with Die Fledermaus
The Classical Music Minute - A podcast by Steven Hobé, Composer & Host - Mondays
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Description On New Year’s eve, there are a handful of audience favourites that conductors around the world choose to perform. One such crowd-pleaser is the Die Fledermaus Overture by Johann Strauss II. Join me, as we take a minute to get the scoop! Fun Fact The first London performance of Die Fledermaus did not take place until 1895, "Twenty years after its production as a lyric opera in Vienna…it was [composer and conductor Gustav] Mahler [who] raised the artistic status of Strauss's work b...