Event listing: Leonore | Buxton Opera House | Event is in the past

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Buxton Opera House Buxton, East Midlands, SK17 6XN, United Kingdom

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Performers

Buxton Festival Opera
Stephen Barlow	Conductor
Stephen Medcalf	Director
Francis O'Connor	Set Designer
Northern Chamber Orchestra
Kirstin Sharpin	Soprano	Leonore
David Danholt	Tenor	Florestan
Scott Wilde	Bass	Rocco
Kristy Swift	Soprano	Marzelline
Stuart Laing	Tenor	Jaquino
Hrolfur Saemundsson	Baritone	Don Pizarro
Jonathan Best	Bass	Don Fernando

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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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“Beethoven's what?" Leonore at Buxton Festival

Dominic Lowe, 8th July

Stephen Barlow makes the case for Beethoven's earlier version of Fidelio, but doesn't quite manage to convince.

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