| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 19-Mar-2013 Theater an der Wien | Harnoncourt's Fidelio sees a remarkable directing debut in Vienna |
 The Theater an der Wien has a storied history with Fidelio, having hosted the première of the work’s first and second versions in 1805 and 1806 respectively. In 2013 this is a house more oriented to the present than the past, and in interviews prior to this new production, conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt and director Herbert Föttinger warned that those accustomed to Beethoven’s only opera being performed by “war horse” or “armoured cruiser” orchestras would get “their ears cleaned out” by the work’s third version.Read full review... | |
| 3-Nov-2012 St George's Bristol | Bristol Opera's Fidelio at St George's Bristol |
| Turning his long-awaited aspiration into reality, musical director of Bristol Opera Arne Kovac conducted his favourite opera in concert in order to celebrate his 40th birthday. Beethoven’s masterpiece Fidelio is his only venture into opera and tells a story of love, happy marriage and freedom, complete with happy ending.
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| 17-Jun-2012 Semperoper | Fidelio an enduring ode to freedom in Dresden |
 The Dresden Semperoper premiered a new production of Fidelio scarcely a month before the fall of East Germany. Much has changed in the intervening decade and a bit, but the Semperoper is still playing the same Fidelio. It doesn't take much knowledge of recent German history to understand why it was a sensation at the time.Read full review... | |
| 27-Nov-2011 National Theatre | More Bieito than Beethoven: Fidelio at the Bayerische Staatsoper |
 Beethoven took over nine years to write and edit Fidelio, his only opera. It tells the story of Leonore, whose husband Florestan is being illegally held in prison. She disguises herself as a man, Fidelio, and gets a job in the prison in an attempt to save him. Over the course of its creation it turned from a three-act opera into a two-act one, changed its name, and went through four separate overtures!Read full review... | |
