Soprano Jacquelyn Wagner about Beethoven's Fidelio | Dutch National Opera

Liberation opera, revolutionary artwork, an ode to fidelity in love and utopian drama – Fidelio, Beethoven’s only opera, is all of these things. The numerous characterisations and interpretations add an aura of mystery to the opera but demonstrate above all that it is a unique work of musical theatre that expresses the hope for a humane future with justice and liberty for all.

The stage direction is in the hands of the Ukrainian director Andriy Zholdak. His visual imagery, replete with symbols, is reminiscent of great film directors such as Andrei Tarkovsky and Ingmar Bergman. Using a distinctive style, Zholdak explores the deeper layers of the universal human drama of Fidelio.

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Performance information

The version chosen for this production of Fidelio is largely based on Gustav Mahler’s 1904 version. This means that the Rocco aria is not performed, but the Leonore 3 overture is heard in the finale of the second act. During one of the scene changes, you will also hear a fragment of the Funeral March from Symphony No. 3 (Eroica).

Opera in two acts
Sung in German

Libretto – Joseph Sonnleithner

Musical direction – Andrés Orozco Estrada
Stage direction, set and lighting design – Andriy Zholdak
Costume design – Andriy Zholdak and Simon Machabeli
Set design – Andriy Zholdak and Daniel Zholdak
Video design – Etienne Guiol
Associate Video design – Malo Lacroix
Sound design – Juan Verdaguer
Dramaturgy – Luc Joosten

Don Fernando – Mark Kurmanbayev*
Florestan – Eric Cutler
Rocco – James Creswell
Don Pizarro – Nicholas Brownlee
Leonore – Jacquelyn Wagner
Marzelline – Anna El-Khashem
Jaquino – Linard Vrielink
Erster Gefangener – Stefan Kennedy
Zweiter Gefangener – Peter Arink

*Dutch National Opera Studio
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Chorus of Dutch National Opera
Chorus master Edward Ananian-Cooper

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Part of the Holland Festival

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