Organization

Conductor

Gustavo Dudamel

Stage director

Alberto Arvelo

Co Director

Joaquín Solano

Costume designer

Solange Mendoza

Singer

Soprano

Gabriella Reyes

Marzelline

Tenor

Andrew Staples

Florestan

Tamara Wilson

Leonore

David Portillo

Jaquino

Bass

James Rutherford

Rocco

Baritone

Shen Yang

Don Pizzaro

Patrick Blackwell

Don Fernando

Set designer

DJ Kurs

LA Phil

Orchestra

Others

Coro de Manos Blancas

Beethoven’s Fidelio with Dudamel and Deaf West Theatre

Los Angeles

United States

Walt Disney Concert Hall

Beethoven’s Fidelio with Dudamel and Deaf West Theatre: Fidelio Beethoven

Public

Fidelio

Approved

The innovative semi-staged production of Beethoven’s Fidelio, created for both Deaf and hearing audiences, was called an “outright breakthrough for opera” by the Los Angeles Times when it was performed in 2022. With a story told through the composer’s music sung by hearing vocalists and the expressive gestural poetry of sign language by Deaf actors, the performances explore the search for communication—both primal and sublime—that is at the heart of all artistic expression.

Premiered in 1805 as Beethoven was reckoning with his own Deafness, Fidelio is a tale of triumph over oppression as the noblewoman Leonore goes undercover to daringly rescue her husband from political imprisonment. Dudamel conducts the LA Phil and a star-studded cast in a groundbreaking event co-directed by Alberto Arvelo and Joaquín Solano and produced in collaboration with Los Angeles’ acclaimed Tony Award®-winning Deaf West Theatre (Artistic Director, David Kurs) and Venezuela’s Coro de Manos Blancas (White Hands Choir.)

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Ensemble