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Bodies inside a box: a colourless Fidelio in Zurich

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Reviewed at Opernhaus, Zurich on 3 December 2017
Beethoven, Fidelio
Zurich Opera
Simone Young, Conductor
Andreas Homoki, Director
Henrik Ahr, Set Designer
Barbara Drosihn, Costume Designer
Elza van den Heever, Leonore
Klaus Florian Vogt, Florestan
Martin Gantner, Don Pizarro
Oliver Widmer, Don Fernando
Christof Fischesser, Rocco
Mélissa Petit, Marzelline
Spencer Lang, Jaquino
Jonathan Abernethy, First prisoner
Orchester der Oper Zürich
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