Tara Faircloth explains how themes of Beethoven’s “Fidelio” transcend time.

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 ...

Beethoven's Fidelio, a powerful political thriller, will be presented at the Lyric Opera of Chicago from September 26 to October 10, 2024. Directed by Matthew Ozawa and conducted by Enrique Mazzola, ...

Is Fidelity to Fidelio essential? To what extent do we, as observers of injustice, have a responsibility to act? The new revival of Tobias Kratzer’s Fidelio production from the Royal Ballet and Opera ...

If “operatic” is a synonym for “big,” Herman Melville’s sprawling novel “Moby-Dick” should be ideal source material for the stage. Jake Heggie’s 2010 operatic treatment certainly took up a lot of ...

Sharlene Wells (Oracle) walked out on stage and opened the scene, quoting Martin Luther King Jr. This is the world premiere ...

Not really: Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen, who’s shown herself indispensable in roles from Tchaikovsky’s QUEEN OF SPADES to Strauss’s ARIADNE AUF NAXOS starts her maternity leave at the end of her ...

In the heart of the nation's capital, in a courthouse of the U.S. government, one man will stop at nothing to keep his honor, and one will stop at nothing to find the truth.

Opera Company of Middlebury Opera Company of Middlebury presents Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Fidelio,” directed by Douglas Anderson and conducted by Filippo Ciabatti, June 2-10 at Town Hall Theater, 68 S.

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 ...

Garsington’s airy and luminous opera pavilion challenges any interpreter of a work so filled – dramatically and musically – with the subterranean darkness of buildings, of institutions, and of the ...