Paul Nadler to Conduct Metropolitan Opera's DIE FLEDERMAUS, 2/3 & 5

Paul Nadler will conduct the performances of Strauss's Die Fledermaus on February 3 and 5, replacing Adam Fischer, who is ill.

Nadler, a member of the Met's music staff, has conducted 49 performances with the company since his debut in 1989. Later this season, he will conduct the February 15 performance of Dvo?ák's Rusalka. He has led Met performances of Verdi's Rigoletto, Un Ballo in Maschera, Aida, Don Carlo, and La Traviata; Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia; Wagner's Tannhäuser; Giordano's Andrea Chénier; Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps, Le Rossignol, and Oedipus Rex; Bizet's Carmen; Beethoven's Fidelio; Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin; Gounod's Roméo et Juliette; and Mozart's Die Zauberflöte.

The new production of Die Fledermaus, directed by Jeremy Sams, is performed in English with lyrics by Sams and dialogue by Douglas Carter Beane. The cast includes Susanna Phillips as Rosalinde, Jane Archibald as Adele, Anthony Roth Costanzo as Orlofsky, Michael Fabiano as Alfred, Christopher Maltman as Eisenstein, Paulo Szot as Dr. Falke, Patrick Carfizzi as Frank, and Danny Burstein as Frosch.