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
Ádám Fischer	Conductor
Otto Schenk	Director
Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera
Concert Association Vienna State Opera Chorus
Nina Stemme	Soprano	Leonore
Robert Dean Smith	Tenor	Florestan
Jochen Schmeckenbecher	Bass-baritone	Don Pizarro
Lars Woldt	Bass	Rocco
Annika Gerhards	Soprano	Marzelline
Norbert Ernst	Tenor	Jaquino
Sebastian Holecek	Baritone	Don Fernando

Reviews of Fidelio, Op.72 directed by Otto Schenk

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Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna, January 2016

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Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna, February 2025 (Deutsch)

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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 rousing Fidelio in Vienna

Ako Imamura, 6th June

Nina Stemme leads a successful revival of the Schenk production with a brilliant orchestra led by a passionate Ádám Fischer.

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