So there’s the thinking behind the amazing image we see before us (designer Rebecca Ringst) - a neon-edged framework of shifting metallic chambers, a vertical maze with no apparent way in or way out.

The only shocking thing about Calixto Bieito’s Fidelio, which opens ENO’s autumn programme, is that it’s by the same director who gave us an insightful and vigorously-realised Carmen last season. The ...

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 ...

The Canadian Opera Company's 2023/2024 season launches with Fidelio, the only opera from master composer Ludwig van Beethoven and a work that hasn't been seen on the COC stage in nearly 15 years. The ...

Tobias Kratzer looks to shatter stereotypes with a fresh approach to Beethoven’s only opera. By A.J. Goldmann This season, opera in London speaks with a German accent. At the Royal Opera House, the ...

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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. To celebrate the 250th anniversary of his birth, Melbourne Opera is thrilled to ...

Beethoven’s “Fidelio” is a brave opera of liberation. It may also be a dramatically flawed opera, and one Beethoven anguished over longer than any of his other great works. But liberation itself is a ...

Beethoven's opera Fidelio is the story of a man who has been unjustly imprisoned. Through that story, a group of enterprising artists has found a way to bring Fidelio, quite literally, into today's ...