Every year in June, Pride Month celebrates the visibility of queer culture, but also commemorates the fight against marginalisation and discrimination. Pride is resistance and joie de vivre! And what work would be better suited to take a fresh look at eroticism, love and social expectations on the occasion of this festival than Johann Strauss' Die Fledermaus?

Operetta of all things? Yes - no genre is more queer! Subversive and revealing from the very beginning, it has always been a play with gender roles and desires. With masquerade and transformation, it tells of people who take on - or have to take on - other identities. What changes when relationships are not automatically heterosexual? When social norms produce not just pleasurable deceptions, but existential lies?<<<