A staple of the operatic repertoire, Beethoven’s only opera continues to be regularly revived and treated with respect by opera companies across the globe, and it’s easy to see why. Fidelio is rich in ...

As long as we have prisons and government, and as long as profit and power remain factors in that equation, we do well to keep the warning of “Fidelio” in our cultural employ. The abuse of power that ...

This capsule review is greatly abbreviated from the full review that ran in The Santa Fe New Mexican immediately following the opening of the production. It has also been updated to reflect cast ...

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Beethoven’s “Fidelio” is a brave opera of liberation. It may also be a dramatically flawed opera, and one Beethoven anguished over longer than any of his other great works. But liberation itself is a ...

New productions of Beethoven’s “Fidelio” and Mozart’s “Cosi fan tutte,” the West Coast premiere of Poul Ruders’ “The Handmaid’s Tale,” and the company’s first-ever production of Alexander Zemlinsky’s ...

The lowest point is the highest point in Washington National Opera’s new production of Beethoven’s “Fidelio.” Deep in Pizarro’s dungeon, a woebegone Florestan — powerfully sung by tenor Jamez McCorkle ...

Austin Opera’s season concludes with Fidelio: A Celebratory Gala Production. Beethoven wrote Fidelio, his only opera, in response to the volatile political situation in Europe during his time, and his ...

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.

In the wake of some glorious Strauss and Wagner and an appetite-whetting publicity campaign for this production itself, I had high hopes for WNO’s new production of Fidelio-exciting young artists in ...