Fidelio

Lucerne Festival

May 21, 2011, 1:00 pm

Composer: Ludwig Van Beethoven
Conductor: Claudio Abbado

Cast: Jonas Kaufmann …………. Florestan
Nina Stemme ……………. Leonore
Falk Struckmann ………. Don Pizarro
Christof Fischesser …………. Rocco
Rachel Harnisch ………… Marzelline
Christoph Strehl ………….. Jacquino
Peter Mattei ………… Don Fernando

Beethoven spent as much time on his only opera as some composers did on a whole portfolio of operas -- and it shows. Fidelio is one of opera's greatest stories of salvation, both literal and spiritual.

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