Fidelio feels to me an unfinished opera. The music is extraordinary - I know every note of it by heart, but the libretto Beethoven used is weak, because of its conventionality. It's a very simple ...

High musical standards salvage ENO's radical new Fidelio, while Royal Opera's Elektra is outstanding Kafka's The Trial, glass and steel tower blocks, a walk-on part for Casanova and a hang-on part for ...

Beethoven's opera "Fidelio" might be likened to an ornate and magnificent clock, fashioned throughout with inspired workmanship and superb components, that never quite manages to tell time. "Fidelio" ...

Skylight Music Theatre's new Artistic Director Viswa Subbaraman will open his first season at Skylight with an innovative, 21st century production of Ludwig van Beethoven's 19th century masterpiece, ...

Having repeatedly poked fun at the ongoing “Music of Budapest, Prague and Vienna” festival at the Kennedy Center — since its title would seem to describe business as usual for many of that institution ...

In Calixto Bieito's radical reworking of Fidelio, most of the features that traditionally define the work are challenged or subverted, in a way that certainly provokes a reaction (as intended) even as ...