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 ...

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 ...

In the course of its nearly six-decade history, The Santa Fe Opera must have thought now and again about presenting Fidelio, Ludwig van Beethoven’s only opera and one of the repertoire’s seminal works ...

Is Fidelity to Fidelio essential? To what extent do we, as observers of injustice, have a responsibility to act? The new revival of Tobias Kratzer’s Fidelio production from the Royal Ballet and Opera ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hopelessness and redemption are among the themes painted in Ozarks Lyric Opera's upcoming production that premieres this weekend. Ozarks Lyric Opera presents "Fidelio," Ludwig van Beethoven's only ...

Irish soprano Sinéad Campbell Wallace leads a strong cast in Francesca Zambello’s new vision of Beethoven’s sole opera. The lowest point is the highest point in Washington National Opera’s new ...

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