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Warner's electrifying Fidelio starts the season and ends an era at La Scala

By James Imam, 15 December 2014
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Reviewed at Teatro alla Scala, Milan on 13 December 2014
Programme
Beethoven, Fidelio
Performers
Teatro alla Scala
Daniel Barenboim, Conductor
Deborah Warner, Director
Chloe Obolensky, Costume Designer, Set Designer
Anja Kampe, Leonore
Mojca Erdmann, Marzelline
Klaus Florian Vogt, Florestan
Florian Hoffmann, Jaquino
Falk Struckmann, Don Pizarro
Peter Mattei, Don Fernando
Kwangchul Youn, Rocco
Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala
Coro del Teatro alla Scala
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James Imam
James Imam
James Imam is an arts journalist writing for publications including The Financial Times, The Times, Musical America and Opera magazine. He grew up in Manchester, read anthropology at Cambridge and has since lived in Milan. As a once-aspiring countertenor he has an abiding interest in Baroque music.