On New Year’s Eve I got to enjoy a classic pleasure of the occasion, listening to a performance (in German) of Johann Strauss’s Die Fledermaus (The Bat). The 1874 operetta offers trickery, disguise, seduction, and waltzes, waltzes, waltzes (on the occasion of a New Year’s Eve ball in Vienna). It’s a standard feature of New Year’s … Continue reading Glücklich ist, wer vergisst, was doch nicht zu ändern ist