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 ...

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 ...

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Beethoven's Fidelio, a powerful political thriller, will be presented at the Lyric Opera of Chicago from September 26 to October 10, 2024. Directed by Matthew Ozawa and conducted by Enrique Mazzola, ...

Last night before the start of Utah Opera's production of Fidelio, which opened its new season, the bagpipe player who can often be found serenading theatre-goers was once more in... Last night before ...

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 ...

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.

The orchestra is down to 33: single (hardworking!) woodwind, two horns, two trumpets, no trombones, in a score reduction by Francis Griffin. The chorus numbers 24, and between them that’s going some ...

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 ...

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