Organization

Gstaad Menuhin Festival

Conductor

Jaap van Zweden

Singer

Soprano

Anja Kampe

Leonore

Tenor

Jonas Kaufmann

Florestan

Bass

Matthias Winckhler

Don Fernando

Baritone

Falk Struckmann

Don Pizzaro

Andreas Bauer Kanabas

Rocco

Christina Landshamer

Marzelline

Patrick Grahl

Jaquino

Peter Simonischek

Narrator

Others

Chœur Philharmonique Tchèque de Brno

Orchestra

Gstaad festival orchestra

Fidelio – Beethoven 250

Saanen

Switzerland

Gstaad Festival Tent

Fidelio – Beethoven 250: Fidelio Beethoven

Public

Fidelio

Approved

It is Beethoven's only opera... but what an opera! A concentration of his dramatic genius at the service of values emblematic of his thinking, deeply marked by the impetus of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution: freedom and fraternity. Inspired by a play by Jean-Nicolas Bouilly entitled Léonore ou l'amour conjugal [Leonora or Marital Love], his Fidelio stages a woman (Leonora) who does everything in her power to get her husband (Florestan) out of prison... including disguising herself as a man (under the name of Fidelio) to get inside. Presented in a concert version, this masterpiece is the opportunity for a two-fold come-back: that of star tenor Jonas Kaufmann and conductor Jaap van Zweden at the head of the Gstaad Festival Orchestra.

English

Fidelio – Beethoven 250 by Beethoven, From (2020/2020), Conductor Jaap van Zweden, Gstaad Festival Tent, Saanen, Switzerland

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Ensemble

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