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‘El murciélago’

'The Bat'

Comic operetta in three acts by Johann Strauss, Jr. (Austria, 1825-1899) and German libretto by Carl Hafner and Richard Genée. It premiered in April 1874 at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.

It is based on a German comedy called the Prison  byJulius Roderich, in turn inspired by the French vaudeville The midnight feast, but in his adaptation Strauss moved the action to a Viennese party.