Name: Fidelio
Start: 2000-10-13T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2001-01-11T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Metropolitan Opera House

Organization

Singer

Karita Mattila

No role specified

Renate Behle

Jennifer Welch-Babidge

Hei-Kyung Hong

Ben Heppner

Roland Wagenführer

Matthew Polenzani

Falk Struckmann

Sergei Leiferkus

René Pape

Robert Lloyd

James Morris

Julien Robbins

Conductor

James Levine

Gareth Morrell

Stage director

Jürgen Flimm

Set designer

Robert Israel

Costume designer

Florence von Gerkan

The Metropolitan Opera

German

Fidelio

New York City

United States

Metropolitan Opera House

Jürgen Flimm’s haunting production of Beethoven’s only opera brings the work’s desperate plea for freedom and justice into the modern era, reminding us just how powerful and urgent its story is. Under James Levine’s passionate leadership, Beethoven’s score blazes, as does the superb cast. Karita Mattila is Leonore, the faithful wife who disguises herself as a man to search for her husband Florestan (Ben Heppner), unjustly imprisoned by his political enemy, Pizarro (Falk Struckmann). René Pape is Rocco, the jailor caught between conscience and duty.

Production booklet

Further reading