Calixto Bieito, as we’ve seen from his previous shows at English National Opera, knows how to put an audience on the back foot. His nose for theatre, his desire to confound expectations, can be ...

“It’s an opera like nothing else,” adds OCM Music Director Filippo Ciabatti. “The fact that it’s his only opera makes it a rare and wonderful thing,” Anderson said. Opera Company of Middlebury will ...

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, ...

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Beethoven’s “Fidelio” is a brave opera of liberation. It may also be a dramatically flawed opera, and one Beethoven anguished over longer than any of his other great works. But liberation itself is a ...

So there’s the thinking behind the amazing image we see before us (designer Rebecca Ringst) - a neon-edged framework of shifting metallic chambers, a vertical maze with no apparent way in or way out.

Beethoven’s “Fidelio” is a brave opera of liberation. It may also be a dramatically flawed opera, and one Beethoven anguished over longer than any of his other great works. But liberation itself is a ...

The only shocking thing about Calixto Bieito’s Fidelio, which opens ENO’s autumn programme, is that it’s by the same director who gave us an insightful and vigorously-realised Carmen last season. The ...

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