The Bat

With a new production of "Die Fledermaus," set in Vienna in 1926, the Reichenau Festival commemorates the opening of its theater in its anniversary year. Nils Strunk and Lukas Schrenk are dedicating themselves to the grand operetta with which the house was originally inaugurated.

Their version of "Die Fledermaus" pulses to the rhythm of the "Roaring Twenties": swing, blues, and Charleston meet the timeless melodies of Johann Strauss. It is an era on a knife's edge between economic hardship and escapism, hyperinflation and hedonism.

In this dance on the volcano, the entanglement unfolds around the wealthy Gabriel von Eisenstein, who ends up not in prison but at a party in the city's most notorious cabaret: the "Palais Orlofsky." The champagne corks pop, and the fragile facade of bourgeois respectability begins to crumble...

An excellent live band and a high-caliber ensemble of actors and musical theater performers will play in this intoxicating blend of the Golden Age of operetta and the Golden Twenties. In July 2026, the "Palais Orlofsky" will open its doors.