The lowest point is the highest point in Washington National Opera’s new production of Beethoven’s “Fidelio.” Deep in Pizarro’s dungeon, a woebegone Florestan — powerfully sung by tenor Jamez McCorkle ...

Sharlene Wells had to stop laughing before she could respond to an email about potentially taking part in an upcoming Utah ...

Tara Faircloth explains how themes of Beethoven’s “Fidelio” transcend time.

Sharlene Wells (Oracle) walked out on stage and opened the scene, quoting Martin Luther King Jr. This is the world premiere ...

Is Fidelity to Fidelio essential? To what extent do we, as observers of injustice, have a responsibility to act? The new revival of Tobias Kratzer’s Fidelio production from the Royal Ballet and Opera ...

When the curtain rises this January on Utah Opera's new production of Beethoven's "Fidelio," the costumes will be unlike anything the audience has seen before. Newly designed by Fan Zhang, an ...

If you believe musical performance fundamentally is an expression of freedom, then “Fidelio,” Ludwig van Beethoven’s only opera, is your über text. The famed work is now at Lyric Opera of Chicago with ...

Beethoven’s only opera Fidelio is hard to pin down. Strip it down to its bare bones and you have a romance, but it wears the flesh of a political thriller. The cross-dressing protagonist could garner ...

Garsington’s airy and luminous opera pavilion challenges any interpreter of a work so filled – dramatically and musically – with the subterranean darkness of buildings, of institutions, and of the ...

Condensing Melville’s vast and discursive work into a three-hour opera may have seemed as foolish as Captain Ahab’s increasingly desperate voyage to find the whale that maimed him, but Heggie and ...