NEW YORK — Few opera choruses are as moving as the one a group of prisoners sings in Act 1 of Beethoven’s “Fidelio.” Released temporarily from their cells, the inmates almost whisper a hymnlike paean ...

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 ...

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Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Eryn Jean Norvill reads this text from a podium at the side of the stage between ...

The only prison I’ve been to is the one on Robben Island where Nelson Mandela was incarcerated. I’ve started reading his letters – some of the things he says could almost be translations of the text ...

Staged by Germany’s Theater Bonn on the occasion of Ludwig van Beethoven’s 250th birthday, his only opera “Fidelio” has been devoted to the political prisoners in Turkey. The Bonn Theater in Germany ...

MILAN (Reuters) - Daniel Barenboim celebrated his final season premiere as musical director of La Scala on Sunday with a performance of "Fidelio", Ludwig van Beethoven's only opera, winning a ...