It is odd that the English (from some sort of musical snobbishness) should look down on the merits of first-rate light music... ...The man in the street, with no high brow pretensions about musical culture, could and tonight obviously did enjoy to the full the infectious gaiety of this work [Die Fledermaus]. And I rather think that the inclusion occasionally in the repertoire of works like this, must have a distinctly enlivening effect on the company [Sadlers Wells]