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The Last Debate (Free subscription) | 17/11/2008
It seems odd that it took seventeen years for an avid opera goer like myself to make it to a performance of Beethoven's only opera, Fidelio , but that's how it turned out. I confess, Fidelio is not one I'd really been dying to see. The Met had a new production with Ben Heppner and Karita Mattila when I was still in New York, and even though it was a hot ticket, I imagine I could have gotten in if I'd...
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Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 14/10/2008
Beethoven's Fidelio is one of those creative whirlpools that stymied not only the composer but also most others who came after him hoping to make the opera more consistently stageworthy. Do you go for representational realism (as does the Metropolitan Opera)? Update it to modern-day Iraq (which is probably in the works somewhere)?
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Opera Today (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
Musically and dramatically Ferdinando Paer’s Leonora and Beethoven’s Fidelio might be said to belong respectively to pre- and post-revolutionary ages.
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THE LION AND THE CARDINAL (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus August 15 at 8:30 p.m. August 16 at 7:30 p.m. Jay Pritzker Pavilion ~ Millennium Park, Chicago MOZART ~ Overture ~ The Marriage of Figaro WAGNER ~ Wach auf es nahet gen den ~ Die Meistersinger BEETHOVEN ~ O Welche Lust ~ Fidelio WAGNER ~ Spinning Chorus ~ The Flying Dutchman WAGNER ~ Sailor’s Chorus ~ The Flying Dutchman MUSSORGSKY ~ Prelude ~ Khovantchina MUSSORGSKY...
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Bass Blog (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
A BEETHOVEN Overture to Fidelio, Op. 72c BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major, Op. 73 (Emperor) INTERMISSION BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op. 55 (Eroica) Sir Andrew Davis conductor Leon Fleischer piano B WILLIAMS The Olympic Spirit WILLIAMS Theme from Jaws WILLIAMS Bicycle Chase from E.T., The Extra-Terrestrial WILLIAMS Main Theme from Close Encounters of the Third Kind WILLIAMS...
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Opera Chic (Free subscription) | 20/06/2008
Currently in the performance rotation is the Opéra National du Rhin's run of Beethoven's Fidelio. Conductor Marc Albrecht leads the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg in the Andreas Baesler production of Beethoven's only opera. The production is in co-production with The...
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CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 27/03/2008
BEETHOVEN'S FIDELIOVancouver Opera At Queen Elizabeth Theatrein Vancouver on TuesdayBeethoven's only opera, Fidelio, gave him no end of trouble in the writing of it, and those troubles are still audible. First produced in 1805, with a libretto that dates from 1789, the opera didn't assume its final form until 1814. That it celebrates the ideals of the French Revolution goes without saying, but a lot...
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 23/03/2008
By Sarah Bryan Miller, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Mar. 23--Ludwig van Beethoven wrote only one opera, "Fidelio." It's a heroic story and contains some of Beethoven's most inspired music. David Robertson, the St.
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CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 22/03/2008
For fans of theatre and opera who have sat through one too many modern-day Macbeths that didn't quite translate, one too many contemporary Carmens that didn't ring true, the concept of setting Beethoven's only opera, Fidelio, during the fall of the Berlin Wall might not be enticing.
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Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
Don't miss the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra 's presentation of Beethoven's Fifth, as Beethoven's best-known symphony is coupled with his Leonore Overture No. 3. The Overture is from the opera Fidelio and tells through music of good's victory over evil and the absolute happiness that lies in the soul. BSO principal flutist Emily Skala will also perform Baltimore native Christopher Rouse's Flute Concerto,...
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 07/11/2007
Dennis Russell Davies and Maki Namekawa played Alexander Zemlinsky's four-hand version of Beethoven's “Fidelio” in extroverted and very public fashion on Monday.
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 07/11/2007
Dennis Russell Davies and Maki Namekawa played Alexander Zemlinsky's four-hand version of Beethoven's “Fidelio” in extroverted and very public fashion on Monday.
