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Jürgen Flimm's production of Fidelio returns to The Met after a long absence

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Reviewed at Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, New York City on 16 March 2017
Beethoven, Fidelio
Metropolitan Opera
Sebastian Weigle, Conductor
Jürgen Flimm, Director
Robert Israel, Set Designer
Florence von Gerkan, Costume Designer
Adrianne Pieczonka, Leonore
Klaus Florian Vogt, Florestan
Falk Struckmann, Rocco
Greer Grimsley, Don Pizarro
Günther Groissböck, Don Fernando
Hanna-Elisabeth Müller, Marzelline
David Portillo, Jaquino
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