Name: Fidelio
Start: 2020-03-01T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2020-03-13T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Royal Opera House

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Soprano

Lise Davidsen

Leonore

Tenor

Jonas Kaufmann

Florestan

Bass

Georg Zeppenfeld

Rocco

Baritone

Simon Neal

Don Pizzaro

Amanda Forsythe

Marzelline

Robin Tritschler

Jaquino

Egils Silins

Don Fernando

Filipe Manu

First prisoner

Byeong-Min Gil

Second prisoner

Conductor

Antonio Pappano

Stage director

Tobias Kratzer

Set designer

Rainer Sellmaier

Video designer

Manuel Braun

Lighting designer

Michael Bauer

Dramaturge

Bettina Bartz

Royal Opera House

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Fidelio

London

United Kingdom

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Antonio Pappano conducts Lise Davidsen in the Royal Opera's new production of Beethoven's only opera. Lise Davidsen performs Leonore's 'Komm Hoffnung' Act I aria. Watch the full recording, broadcast on BBC 4: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000....

Beethoven’s only opera is a masterpiece, an uplifting story of risk and triumph. In this new production, conducted by Antonio Pappano, Jonas Kaufmann plays the political prisoner Florestan, and Lise Davidsen his wife Leonore (disguised as ‘Fidelio’) who daringly sets out to rescue him. Set in strong counterpoint are the ingredients of domestic intrigue, determined love and the cruelty of an oppressive regime. The music is transcendent throughout and includes the famous Act I Quartet, the Prisoners’ Chorus and Florestan’s impassioned Act II cry in the darkness and vision of hope. Tobias Kratzer’s new staging brings together the dark reality of the French Revolutionary ‘Terror’ and our own time to illuminate Fidelio’s inspiring message of shared humanity.

Fidelio Beethoven

Fidelio by Beethoven, From (2020/2020), Directed by Tobias Kratzer,, Conductor Antonio Pappano, Royal Opera House, London, United Kingdom

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