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After over 70 years apart, Beethoven’s Fidelio is reunited with the Volksoper

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Reviewed at Volksoper Wien, Vienna on 25 May 2014
Beethoven, Fidelio
Volksoper Wien
Markus Bothe, Director
Robert Schweer, Set Designer
Marcy Stonikas, Leonore
Roy Cornelius Smith, Florestan
Sebastian Holecek, Don Pizarro
Stefan Cerny, Rocco
Rebecca Nelsen, Marzelline
Thomas Paul, Jaquino
Günter Haumer, Don Fernando
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