Released:
1986-01-01

Overview:
Performances from Pamela Coburn, Brigitte Fassbaender, Janet Perry, Eberhard Wachter, the Choir und Ballet der Bayerischen Staatsoper, and the Bayerisches Staatsorchester. Rosalinde, wife of Eisenstein, is having an affair with Alfred. Eisenstein is due to begin a prison sentence the next morning, and the prison governor, Frank, is expected to collect him at any moment. However, Eisenstein allows himself to be talked into attending a fancy dress ball by Dr Falke, and when Frank arrives to find Alfred with Rosalinde, he assumes him to be Eisenstein and carts him off to prison.

Directors:
Brian Large, Otto Schenk

Runtime:
2h 36min

Genre:
Comedy, Music

• Cast:
• 
  Eberhard Wächter
  as
  Gabriel von Eisenstein
• 
  Pamela Coburn
  as
  Rosalinde
• 
  Janet Perry
  as
  Adele
• 
  Benno Kusche
  as
  Frank
• 
  Brigitte Fassbaender
  as
  Prinz Orlovsky