Die Fledermaus
Year Country Notes Director Eisenstein Rosalinde Adele Orlofsky Frosch
1917 Germany as Das fidele Gefängnis [ de ] ( The Merry Jail ) ( silent film ) Ernst Lubitsch Harry Liedtke ( Alex von Reizenstein ) Kitty Dewall [ de ] ( Alice , his wife ) Agda Nielson ( Mizi , the maid ) Emil Jannings ( Quabbe , the jailer )
1923 Germany Die Fledermaus ( silent film ) Max Mack Harry Liedtke Eva May Lya De Putti Ernst Hofmann Jakob Tiedtke
1931 France/Germany Die Fledermaus , La Chauve-Souris [ fr ] Karel Lamač Georg Alexander Betty Werner Anny Ondra Iván Petrovich Karl Etlinger
1933 Great Britain Waltz Time Wilhelm Thiele Fritz Schulz Evelyn Laye Gina Malo George Baker Jay Laurier
1937 Germany Die Fledermaus [ it ] Paul Verhoeven Hans Söhnker Lída Baarová Friedl Czepa Karel Štěpánek Hans Moser
1945 Germany Die Fledermaus ( Released 1946 ) Géza von Bolváry Johannes Heesters Marte Harell Dorit Kreysler Siegfried Breuer Josef Egger
1955 Great Britain Oh ... Rosalinda ! ! - new title Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger Michael Redgrave Ludmilla Tchérina Anneliese Rothenberger Anthony Quayle Oskar Sima
1955 East Germany Swelling Melodies - new title E. W. Fiedler Erich Arnold Jarmila Kšírová Sonja Schöner Gerd Frickhöffer Joseph Egger
1959 West Germany TV adaptation Kurt Wilhelm [ de ] Friedrich Schoenfelder Nadia Gray Gerlinde Locker Horst Uhse Michl Lang
1962 Austria Die Fledermaus Géza von Cziffra Peter Alexander Marianne Koch Marika Rökk Boy Gobert Hans Moser
1966 Denmark Flagermusen - Danish title Annelise Meineche [ da ] Poul Reichhardt Lily Broberg Ghita Nørby Grethe Mogensen [ da ] Paul Hagen
1968 Denmark Flagermusen - Danish title , TV adaptation John Price Poul Reichhardt Birgitte Bruun Ellen Winther Susse Wold Buster Larsen
1972 Austria Die Fledermaus [ de ] - TV adaptation Otto Schenk Eberhard Wächter Gundula Janowitz Renate Holm Wolfgang Windgassen Otto Schenk
1979 Soviet Union Die Fledermaus Yan Frid Yury Solomin Lyudmila Maksakova Larisa Udovichenko Yuri Vasilyev Ivan Lyubeznov
1984 Great Britain TV adaptation Humphrey Burton Hermann Prey Kiri Te Kanawa Hildegard Heichele Doris Soffel Josef Meinrad
1986 West Germany Otto Schenk Eberhard Wächter Pamela Coburn Janet Perry Brigitte Fassbaender Franz Muxeneder
1990 Great Britain Humphrey Burton Louis Otey Nancy Gustafson Judith Howarth Jochen Kowalski John Sessions
1997 Australia Lindy Hume Anthony Warlow Gillian Sullivan Amelia Farrugia Suzanne Johnston Geoff Kelso
2001 France La Chauve-Souris - French title Don Kent [ fr ] Christoph Homberger Mireille Delunsch Malin Hartelius David Moss Elisabeth Trissenaar
2004 Ukraine Oksana Bayrak Aleksei Kravchenko Olga Kabo Marina Mayko Nikolai Karachentsov
Film adaptations
Die Fledermaus has been adapted numerous times for the cinema and for TV :
Die Fledermaus (German: [diː ˈfleːdɐˌmaʊs], The Flittermouse or The Bat, sometimes called The Revenge of the Bat) is an operetta composed by Johann Strauss II to a German libretto by Karl Haffner and Richard Genée.