Running time approximately 3 hours.

Sung in English with surtitles in English (and Welsh in theatres in Wales)

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Synopsis

Some time ago, Gabriel von Eisenstein went with his friend Dr Falke to a fancy dress party. On their way back, Eisenstein left Falke on his own, sleeping peacefully. When he awoke it was daylight and he had to make his way home dressed in his bat’s costume, accompanied by all the jeering urchins in town. He has never forgotten this humiliation.

Act 1
A room in the house of Gabriel von Eisenstein

Outside, a tenor sings a serenade. Inside, Adele the chambermaid is preoccupied with a letter she has received from her sister Ida. She is invited to the party given by Prince Orlofsky, the Russian millionaire, if only she can get the evening off.

Rosalinde has recognised the voice at once: it belongs to Alfred, her lover. Adele returns with her story pat: her Aunt is terribly sick and tonight she needs her devoted niece beside her. Rosalinde listens, unmoved. Her husband has to start a five-day prison sentence that evening for insulting a civil servant. Adele cannot go.

Alfred himself appears. He takes no notice of Rosalinde’s protestations that she is a married woman and insists that she shall see him as soon as her husband is safely behind bars. Rosalinde weakly agrees, just before her husband bursts in with his lawyer, Dr Blind.

The sentence has been increased to eight days. Eisenstein dismisses Dr Blind and then settles down for a final evening at home, before going to prison. His friend Dr Falke enters, determined to cheer him up. As soon as Rosalinde is out of the room, he invites Eisenstein to a party of Orlofsky’s; after all, Eisenstein can report to prison the next morning. While he is changing, Rosalinde decides that since Alfred is coming she had better let Adele have the evening off. Eisenstein returns dressed, but with neither time nor appetite for the meal Adele has ordered. He takes a fond farewell of his wife.

No sooner have he and Adele left, than Alfred returns. He makes himself quite at home with Rosalinde. Their tête-á-tête is interrupted by Frank, who has come to escort Eisenstein personally to his prison. Seeing the pair together, Frank assumes Alfred is Eisenstein, and arrests him.