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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According to program notes, when "Fidelio," Beethoven's only opera, premiered in 1805, it was "to a near-empty Viennese theater due to Napoleon's recent occupation of the city." The San Francisco ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The young director has made his name in Europe with theatrical ...