
Overview
Theater director Falke, dressed as a bat, ends up in prison after a merry carnival night. Director Frank only releases him after some time. Falke decides to take revenge on his friend Gabriel von Eisenstein, to whom he owes the whole affair. The annual masked ball at Prince Orlofsky's provides the opportunity. Falke stages a game of mistaken identity in which Eisenstein does not recognize his own wife and courts her, while maid Adele appears as the countess. Eisenstein is duped, Falke has taken his revenge.
Cast
Rosalinde Eisenstein
Herbert Eisenstein
Theaterdirektor Michael Falke
Adele
Gefängnisdirektor Frank
Tenor Alfred Melzer
Frosch
Prinz Orlowsky
Inspektor
Office writer I.T. prison
Cook at Eisensteins