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Semperoper Dresden

Tenor (+5)

David Butt Philip

Florestan

Bas-bariton (+2)

Markus Marquardt

Don Pizarro

Sopraan

Marlis Petersen

Leonore

Jasmin Delfs

Marzelline

Bas (+5)

Georg Zeppenfeld

Rocco

Tenor (+3)

Mario Lerchenberger

Jaquino

Bariton (+2)

Neven Crnić

Don Fernando

Dirigent

Dirigent (+1)

David Afkham

Regisseur

Christine Mielitz

Set designer

Set designer (+1)

Peter Heilein

Kostuum ontwerper

Licht ontwerper

Bariton (+3)

Eike Wilm Schulte

Koor meester

Koor meester (+5)

Jan Hoffmann

Dramaturg

Wolfgang Pieschel

Tenor

Jörg Reißmann

Erster Gefangener

Sopraan (+3)

Torsten Schäpan

Bas (+3)

Norbert Klesse

Zweiter Gefangener

Bas (+1)

Holger Steinert

Orchestra

Staatskapelle Dresden

Semperoper

Christof Bauer

Chorus

Saxon State Opera Choir Dresden

Sinfoniechor Dresden

Christine Mielitz’s production of Beethoven’s »Fidelio« celebrated its premiere on 7 October 1989. While local citizens took to the streets in front of the Semperoper in support of democracy and human rights, the director placed this »opera of liberation« in a contemporary prison courtyard featuring a surveillance tower and barbed wire. At a time of revolution, terror and war, Ludwig van Beethoven wrote his opera about a woman who, disguised as a man, tries to rescue her husband from illegal incarceration in a secret prison. In the story, the heroism of Leonore is juxtaposed with the banal world of the prison warden Rocco; simultaneously, grand opera is contrasted with German Singspiel. At the end comes liberation, delineated by Beethoven in almost superhuman, utopian music. More than three decades after its premiere, this Dresden production of »Fidelio« from 1989 has lost none of its intensity.

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