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More Bieito than Beethoven: Fidelio at the Bayerische Staatsoper

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Reviewed at Nationaltheater, Munich on 27 November 2011
Beethoven, Fidelio
Bavarian State Opera
Zubin Mehta, Conductor
Calixto Bieito, Director
Bayerisches Staatsorchester
Bayerischer Staatsopernchor
Goran Jurić, Don Fernando
Albert Dohmen, Don Pizarro
Peter Seiffert, Florestan
Anja Kampe, Leonore
Stephen Milling, Rocco
Anna Virovlansky, Marzelline
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