Name: Fidelio
Start: 2024-10-25T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-11-04T00:00:00.000Z
Location: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

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Washington National Opera

Soprano

Sinéad Campbell Wallace

Leonore

Tenor

Jamez McCorkle

Florestan

Baritone

Derek Welton

Don Pizzaro

Bass

David Leigh

Rocco

Denyce Graves

Don Fernando

Conductor

Robert Spano

Set designer

Erhard Rom

Costume designer

Anita Yavitch

Lighting designer

Jane Cox

Stage director

Francesca Zambello

Orchestra

The Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra

German

Fidelio

Washington D.C.

United States

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Opera House

Fidelio: Fidelio Beethoven

Public

Sushant Karmakar

English

Approved

Only her love can set him free.
Florestan suffers in a secret underground cell, unjustly incarcerated for his political beliefs. But a light in the darkness is breaking: Leonore, Florestan’s wife, has disguised herself as the male guard Fidelio to free her beloved. By infiltrating the system that oppresses her husband, can she be the voice that overthrows it—and free her country from a brutal regime?

We launch our new season with Beethoven’s only opera, last staged by WNO in the Opera House more than 30 years ago. This new production marks the first WNO collaboration between Artistic Director Francesca Zambello and Music Director Designate Robert Spano, a four-time Grammy Award®–winning conductor.

Beethoven premiered his story of resistance, freedom, and dissent during a time of complete European upheaval. If his “Ode to Joy” declares the universal triumph of peace over war, then his Fidelio is an inspiring ode to love’s transcendent power over tyranny.

Fidelio by Beethoven, Thu 31 Oct 2024, From (2024/2024), Directed by Francesca Zambello,, Conductor Robert Spano, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington D.C., United States

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