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 ...
Amid the many new operas making their premieres these days, the most contemporary opera you’re likely to see this season is one that was written two centuries ago. We’re talking about “Fidelio.” With ...
Fidelio is the story of love, strife and a cross-dressing woman...a night at the opera just got a lot more interesting. Credit: Photo courtesy of Houston Symphony She’s a man, baby! Rebecca von ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
They billed it as an opera, of course. But the performance of Beethoven's "Fidelio" that crowned the San Francisco Symphony's summer festival in Davies Symphony Hall on Thursday night had a distinctly ...
Complete Information About 'Beethoven's Wrong Note: A Steampunk Opera' in New Jersey at The Burgdorff Center for the Performing Arts. Join the Maplewood Strollers in a world-premiere event 220 years ...
Amid the many new operas making their premieres these days, the most contemporary opera you’re likely to see this season is one that was written two centuries ago. We’re talking about “Fidelio.” With ...