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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MILAN (Reuters) - Daniel Barenboim celebrated his final season premiere as musical director of La Scala on Sunday with a performance of "Fidelio", Ludwig van Beethoven's only opera, winning a ...

Beethoven’s “love of man” was the essence of his being. But his pain and frustration, largely due to his loss of hearing, caused him to seem misanthropic at best; cruel and unfeeling at worst. His ...

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 ...

On paper, director Tobias Kratzer’s rationale for his production of Beethoven’s Fidelio made persuasive sense. He started from the premise that Beethoven set his story in Spain because the censors ...

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 ...

Beethoven's opera Fidelio is the story of a man who has been unjustly imprisoned. Through that story, a group of enterprising artists has found a way to bring Fidelio, quite literally, into today's ...

The 14th Daegu International Opera Festival kicks off on Oct. 6 and will continue until Nov. 5 at the Daegu Opera House. This year’s event is themed "To Joy from Suffering" and will feature main ...