Fidelio by Beethoven, mið 13 des 2017, Frá (2017/2017), Leikstýrt af Andreas Homoki, Hljómsveitarstjóri Simone Young, Opernhaus, Zurich, Switzerland

Fidelio They were last on the stage of the Zurich Opera House as Elsa and Lohengrin, now they are returning to Zurich as Leonore and Florestan: the South African soprano Elza van den Heever and the German tenor Klaus Florian Vogt. At the center of Andreas Homoki's stringent Fidelio production is the strong and courageous Leonore, who, disguised as a man and using the name Fidelio, sneaks into a state prison to free her husband Florestan. Beethoven's only opera was the result of multiple revisions as a "work in progress" over a period of ten years. It combines elements of the Singspiel with those of the dramatic opera and ends with powerful liberation music, which is already Beethoven's Ode to Joyfrom his Ninth Symphony. Andreas Homoki has removed the plot from the middle-class operatic context and tells it in an abstract prison room. In doing so, he focuses on the utopian idea of ​​world brotherhood and the universal themes of humanity, which Beethoven was concerned with in his work. The musical direction of this revival will be taken on by Simone Young, who previously conducted Wagner's Lohengrin at the Zurich Philharmonia in Zurich