Fidelio by Beethoven, dom. 17 ene 2016, De (2016/2016), Director Stefan Gottfried, Theater an der Wien, Viena, Austria

Nikolaus Harnoncourt congratulates the New Opera House in the Theater an der Wien on its 10th anniversary with a concert performance of Fidelio , the most important opera associated with this house. Commissioned by the management of the Theater an der Wien, the premieres of the first (1805) and the second (1806) took place here. Another special moment that Beethoven's only opera shares with this house was the opening of the theater of the destroyed Vienna State Opera in the Theater an der Wien in October 1945 - 140 years after Fideliowas heard here for the first time. Disguised as a man, Leonore wins the trust of the jailer Rocco under the evocative cover name "Fidelio", in whose prison she suspects her missing husband Florestan to be a political prisoner. When Florestan's adversary, the governor Pizarro, orders that Florestan be secretly killed, Leonore is able to prevent this at the last second. The German writer Christoph Klimke created new interim texts for our concert performance.