Fidelio by Beethoven, pir 20 geg 2024, Nuo (2024/2024), Režisierius Ilaria Lanzino,, Dirigentas Anna Skryleva, Opernhaus, Magdeburg, Germany

The only opera by Ludwig van Beethoven draws politically from the tradition of the revolution and horror opera and musically from the oratorio and symphony. Revolving around the principle of hope, imprisonment and Beethoven's ideal of love in a partnership, the opera is about Leonore, who, disguised as a man and using the name Fidelio, ends up in state prison to live with her husband Florestan. The music-theatrical exceptional case Fidelio consistently takes Friedrich Schiller's demand for the "Schaubühne as a moral institution" into account: the conscience of the characters pushes them to make decisions and the music repeatedly modulates to C major as soon as hope prevails. Under the direction of Ilaria Lanzino, winner of the European Opera Directing Prize 2020, the body as a versatile means of expression is at the center of the production, which promises radical and sensual use of the body. Against the background of a plot in which the female body has to be hidden in order to achieve a goal, this approach clearly gains explosiveness.