For all of you Anthony Warlow fans, I'm watching the new DVD of the Australian Opera production of DIE FLEDERMAUS, which is quite a hoot and very broad. For some reason, the production is set neither in 1874, the year of its premiere, nor in a suburb of Vienna, but in a New York of the 1930s with a lot of Art Deco. This is the first production I've seen in which the Act One Finale was sung complete without the standard musical cut. However, the opening chorus of Act Two has the standard cut so I guess it won't be a complete musical text. A lot of the updating works in a very broad way: Frank the chief of Police is now an Irish cop, Eisenstein a New York rather than Viennese business man, Prince Orlovsky a rich Russian after the Revolution, and Rosalinda in disguise is no longer a Hungarian Countess but a Hungarian movie star.
I have to say, though, with all this 30s additions, I wish they were using the Howard Dietz lyrics and Garson Kanin book which are very New York Broadway. Incidentally, another inducement for prospective purchasers is that DIE FLEDERMAUS had a very successful 500+ performances run on Broadway in 1944 as ROSALINDA, wth Shelly Winters as Adele's sister Ida.