Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Fidelio
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Title
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Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Fidelio
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Description
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Opera in two acts
Libretto by Josef Sonnleithnew and Georg Friedrich Treitschke
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Creator
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Metropolitan Opera
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Contributor
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Cast:
Jacquino- Donald Kaasch
Marzelline- Sylvia McNair (Debut)
Rocco- Matti Salminen
Leonore- Hildegard Behrens
Don Pizarro- Ekkehard Wlaschiha
First Prisoner- Michael Forest
Second Prisoner- James Courtney
Florestan- Reiner Goldberg (Debut)
Don Fernando- Alan Held
Metropolitan Opera
Christof Perick, conductor
Otto Schenk, production
Boris Aronson, set and costume design
Gil Wechsler, lighting design
Bruce Donnell, stage director
Raymond Hughes, chorus master
Walter Taussig, Philip Eisenberg, John Keenan, Daniel Beckwith, and Franz Vote, musical preparation
Stephen Pickover, assistant stage director
Philip Eisenberg, prompter
Irene Spiegelman, German diction coach
David Reppa, associate designer
Melvyn Broiles, trumpet solo
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Relation
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"Met offers 'Fidelio' with fidelity"
by Bill Zakariasen
Daily News
January 29, 1992
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"A Performance Of Doom and Gloom"
by Peter Goodman
New York Newsday
January 29, 1992
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"The First Met 'Fidelio' of the Season"
by Edward Rothstein
The New York Times
January 30, 1992
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Annotated score available in Sylvia McNair Collection, Cook Music Library
