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Semperoper Dresden

Tenor (+5)

David Butt Philip

Florestan

Bass-baritone (+2)

Markus Marquardt

Don Pizzaro

Soprano

Marlis Petersen

Leonore

Jasmin Delfs

Marzelline

Bass (+5)

Georg Zeppenfeld

Rocco

Tenor (+3)

Mario Lerchenberger

Jaquino

Baritone (+2)

Neven Crnić

Don Fernando

Conductor

Conductor (+1)

David Afkham

Stage director

Christine Mielitz

Set designer

Set designer (+1)

Peter Heilein

Costume designer

Lighting designer

Baritone (+3)

Eike Wilm Schulte

Chorusmaster

Chorusmaster (+5)

Jan Hoffmann

Dramaturge

Wolfgang Pieschel

Tenor

Jörg Reißmann

First prisoner

Soprano (+3)

Torsten Schäpan

Bass (+3)

Norbert Klesse

Second prisoner

Bass (+1)

Holger Steinert

Orchestra

Staatskapelle Dresden

Semperoper

Christof Bauer

Chorus

Saxon State Opera Choir Dresden

Symphony Chorus 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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