Performer: Günter Haumer

Movable walls, some adorned with Baroque frescoes, partition the stage in ways that remind the viewer of the easy proximity of the masters and servants' quarters in Almaviva's estate.

Steiner’s reading of the mildly disturbing but generally obsequiously presented story is decidedly edgy, especially considering the opera is staged inside the city church.

Jaquino dons the coat of the ousted Pizarro in this Volksoper production of Fidelio, clearly indicating that just as one evil head has been (literally) cut off, another is growing in its place…