Ludwig van Beethoven

Fidelio

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Overview

Duration: 2 hours

Opera in two acts op. 72

Libretto: Joseph Sonnleitner, Georg Friedrich Treitschke

Text of the new production: Thomas Reichert

First performance of the third version: Vienna, May 23, 1814

German with explanations in English

Dates

Abstract

Florestan has disappeared, assumed dead. His wife, Leonore, suspects that he has been unjustly imprisoned by his corrupt adversary Don Pizarro, governor of the prison, as he was about to expose Pizarro's machinations. Determined to rescue her husband, Leonore, disguised as the youth Fidelio, has entered the service of the jailer Rocco ...

Cast

Concept and Direction: Thomas Reichert

Set Design: Michael Simon / Thomas Reichert

Marionette Head Design: Alfred Kleinheinz

Costumes: Kerstin Grießhaber

Musical Arrangement: Thomas Reichert / Philippe Brunner / Matthias Thurow

Light: Thomas Reichert / Alexander Proschek

Puppet’s Heads: Vladimir Fediakov

Puppeteers: Philippe Brunner, Anne-Lise Droin, Vladimir Fediakov, Edouard Funck, Maximilian Kiener, Marion Mayer, Emanuel Paulus, Eva Wiener, Ursula Winzer

Singers: Kieth Engen, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Gottlob Frick, Ernst Haefliger, Friedrich Lenz, Leonie Rysanek, Irmgard Seefried

Speakers: Pauline Fusban, André Jung, Juliane Köhler, Jan-Gregor Kremp, Johannes Meister, Stefan Wilkening