Event listing: Fidelio | Wiener Staatsoper | Event is in the past

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Wiener StaatsoperOpernring 2 / Herbert-von-Karajan-Platz, Vienna, 1010, Austria

Dates/times in Vienna time zone

Programme

Performers

Vienna State Opera
Peter Schneider	Conductor
Otto Schenk	Director
Günther Schneider-Siemssen	Set Designer
Leo Bei	Costume Designer
Anja Kampe	Soprano	Leonore
Klaus Florian Vogt	Tenor	Florestan
Albert Dohmen	Bass-baritone	Don Pizarro
Stephen Milling	Bass	Rocco
Valentina Naforniţă	Soprano	Marzelline
Jörg Schneider	Tenor	Jaquino
Boaz Daniel	Baritone	Don Fernando
Dritan Luca	Tenor	First prisoner
Hiro Ijichi	Bass	Second prisoner

Reviews of Fidelio, Op.72 directed by Otto Schenk

****1

Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna, June 2015

***11

Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna, February 2025 (Deutsch)

****1

Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna, February 2023 (Deutsch)

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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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A routine Fidelio in Vienna

Jonathan Sutherland, 7th January

Klaus Florian Vogt’s Florestan redeems an otherwise disappointing Fidelio in Otto Schenk's timeless production.

***11