If you believe musical performance fundamentally is an expression of freedom, then “Fidelio,” Ludwig van Beethoven’s only opera, is your über text. The famed work is now at Lyric Opera of Chicago with ...

“Fidelio” is Beethoven’s only opera. It took 11 years (1803-1814) and multiple revisions to cobble into its final form, which may explain why there is no other opera by Beethoven. The plot – ...

Opera Company of Middlebury Opera Company of Middlebury presents Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Fidelio,” directed by Douglas Anderson and conducted by Filippo Ciabatti, June 2-10 at Town Hall Theater, 68 S.

Condensing Melville’s vast and discursive work into a three-hour opera may have seemed as foolish as Captain Ahab’s increasingly desperate voyage to find the whale that maimed him, but Heggie and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Beethoven’s “Fidelio” is a brave opera of liberation. It may also be a dramatically flawed opera, and one Beethoven anguished over ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The lowest point is the highest point in Washington National Opera’s new production of Beethoven’s “Fidelio.” Deep in Pizarro’s ...

Beethoven’s only opera Fidelio is hard to pin down. Strip it down to its bare bones and you have a romance, but it wears the flesh of a political thriller. The cross-dressing protagonist could garner ...

reporting from SAN FRANCISCO — “Fidelio” is opera’s never-ending fixer-upper. Beethoven’s only opera and the score the composer spent the most time on almost never works, yet it is all but ...

Rising above the challenging circumstances, Opera North’s semi-staged Fidelio is gripping and authoritative, with an outstanding cast of soloists Opera North’s Fidelio went ahead in the teeth of the ...

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