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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

People may be surprised to learn that classical composer Beethoven wrote an opera. Mid-Ohio Civic Opera will provide the education with four upcoming performances of "Fidelio" in Mansfield, Wooster, ...

Is it wise to refit operas from the past to make them more relevant to our own times? That question has been raised – yet again – by the imminent appearance in London of a new version of Beethoven’s ...

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 ...

The Phoenix Symphony and The Phoenix Symphony Chorus under Maestro Tito Muñoz perform Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, the Choral ...

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