A staple of the operatic repertoire, Beethoven’s only opera continues to be regularly revived and treated with respect by opera companies across the globe, and it’s easy to see why. Fidelio is rich in ...

On reflection, we should have been more suspicious. But when the curtain rose on a solid, period Fidelio complete with lowering prison walls and lank-haired French revolutionaries, a basket of freshly ...

This capsule review is greatly abbreviated from the full review that ran in The Santa Fe New Mexican immediately following the opening of the production. It has also been updated to reflect cast ...

The lowest point is the highest point in Washington National Opera’s new production of Beethoven’s “Fidelio.” Deep in Pizarro’s dungeon, a woebegone Florestan — powerfully sung by tenor Jamez McCorkle ...

Fidelio at the San Francisco Opera (photo by Cory Weaver/San Francisco Opera) SAN FRANCISCO — Opera is for everyone. Cole Thomason-Redus, a program manager in the San Francisco Opera’s Department of ...

Virtual tickets for San Francisco Opera's livestreams of its new production of Ludwig van Beethoven's Fidelio-a brand-new online offering by the Company-go on sale today, October 5 at 1pm PT. San ...

“Fidelio” is Beethoven’s only opera. It took 11 years (1803-1814) and multiple revisions to cobble into its final form, which may explain why there is no other opera by Beethoven. The plot – ...

In the wake of some glorious Strauss and Wagner and an appetite-whetting publicity campaign for this production itself, I had high hopes for WNO’s new production of Fidelio-exciting young artists in ...

Calixto Bieito, as we’ve seen from his previous shows at English National Opera, knows how to put an audience on the back foot. His nose for theatre, his desire to confound expectations, can be ...

It is always a great pleasure to zip down the M40 to the glorious Wormsley Estate, the setting for Garsington Opera. With glorious weather, red kites wheeling in the sky and an opera house that feels ...

Callie, 11, and Ben Burdette, 9, of Independence, and Betsi Brockmeier, 65, of Fort Thomas, are participating in Cincinnati Opera’s production of “Fidelio” July 7 and 9. As supernumeraries, they don’t ...