Conductor Constantin Trinks
Production Calixto Bieito
Set Design Rebecca Ringst
Costume Design Ingo Krügler
Lighting Reinhard Traub
Assistant Choreographer Heidi Aemisegger
Dramaturgy Andrea Schönhofer
Choruses Christoph Heil

Don Fernando Milan Siljanov
Don Pizarro Wolfgang Koch
Florestan David Butt Philip
Leonore Elisabeth Teige
Rocco Brindley Sherratt
Marzelline Jessica Niles
Jaquino Jonas Hacker
1. Gefangener Liam Bonthrone
2. Gefangener Daniel Noyola

Dressed as a man and calling herself “Fidelio”, Leonore surreptitiously gains the confidence of the jailer Rocco and his daughter Marzelline, thus gaining access to the high security tract where her husband Florestan has been despotically incarcerated by Don Pizarro. Florestan is in mortal danger, but this does not intimidate his wife, who is determined to liberate him. Finally, however, the two of them can only be rescued by an emissary from the monarch. At the end, a Utopia in the form of a final chorus sets the stage aglow, not only as a plea for freedom and justice, but also concurrently as a condemnation of the anxieties and restrictions of human existence.

Beethoven had several plans for operatic compositions, but he only managed to realize one of these projects: in a decades-long process of creativity and rewriting, inspired by a French work entitled Léonore or Marital Loyalty by composer Pierre Gaveaux and librettist Jean Nicolas Bouilly, which was in turn based on a real event from the epoch of the French Revolution, Beethoven crafted his only opera, Fidelio – a musical cross-over between a light opera and a grandiose theatrical symphony.

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