Event listing: Fidelio | Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Tue 29 Mar 2011 at 19:30

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Royal Opera House, Covent GardenBow Street, Covent Garden, London, Greater London, WC2E 9DD, United Kingdom

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Performers

The Royal Opera
Sir Mark Elder	Conductor
Jürgen Flimm	Director
Nina Stemme	Soprano	Leonore
Endrik Wottrich	Tenor	Florestan
Kurt Rydl	Bass	Rocco
Elizabeth Watts	Soprano	Marzelline
Steven Ebel	Tenor	Jaquino
John Wegner	Bass-baritone	Don Pizarro
Sir Willard White	Bass-baritone	Don Fernando

Reviews of Fidelio, Op.72 directed by Jürgen Flimm

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Beethoven’s “problem child”: staging Fidelio

Mark Pullinger, 31st January

We speak to three directors – Amélie Niermeyer, Tobias Kratzer and Frederic Wake-Walker – about the challenges of staging Beethoven's only opera.

A sense of theatre: Sir Antonio Pappano

Mark Pullinger, 21st November

Sir Antonio Pappano reflects on recent performances of Fidelio and Norma and how his Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia has evolved and the difficulties staging Verdi.

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Fidelio at the Royal Opera

David Karlin, 29th March

Fidelio, Beethoven's only opera, is on the most universal of themes: the oppression of the innocent by the powerful and the virtue of the struggle for a loved one. It could be set at any time in any place, from Ancient Rome or China to our modern world.

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