Asbury Hall to stage first opera in more than 20 years with Buffalo take on Beethoven’s “Fidelio”

Beethoven's only opera brings a story of love, courage and freedom to Asbury Hall for its first opera in more than 20 years.
Chicago Tribune

Review: In Beethoven’s ‘Fidelio’ at Lyric Opera, prisoners sing about the joy of freedom

If you believe musical performance fundamentally is an expression of freedom, then “Fidelio,” Ludwig van Beethoven’s only opera, is your über text. The famed work is now at Lyric Opera of Chicago with ...
The Independent

Fidelio, Royal Opera House, review: As they say in football, it’s a game of two halves

On paper, director Tobias Kratzer’s rationale for his production of Beethoven’s Fidelio made persuasive sense. He started from the premise that Beethoven set his story in Spain because the censors ...
Observer

‘Moby-Dick’ Sails Confidently into the Met, and the Exhilarating Optimism of ‘Fidelio’ Arrives Just in Time

Condensing Melville’s vast and discursive work into a three-hour opera may have seemed as foolish as Captain Ahab’s increasingly desperate voyage to find the whale that maimed him, but Heggie and ...
The Daily Telegraph

Fidelio: Beethoven’s only opera is a hymn to the human capacity for heroism and a call for political liberty

As part of our daily series Armchair Arts, Rupert Christiansen guides you through Ludwig van Beethoven’s 1814 opera Fidelio Rupert Christiansen was the opera critic and arts features writer for The ...