Name: Fidelio
Start: 2000-10-28T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2000-10-28T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Metropolitan Opera House

Organization

Conductor

James Levine

Soprano

Karita Mattila

Leonore

Tenor

Ben Heppner

Florestan

Baritone

Falk Struckmann

Don Pizzaro

Bass

René Pape

Rocco

The Metropolitan Opera

Others

Metropolitan Opera Choir

Orchestra

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

German

Fidelio

New York City

United States

Metropolitan Opera House

Jürgen Flimm’s haunting production of Beethoven’s only opera brings the work’s desperate plea for freedom and justice into the modern era, reminding us just how powerful and urgent its story is. Under James Levine’s passionate leadership, Beethoven’s score blazes, as does the superb cast. Karita Mattila is Leonore, the faithful wife who disguises herself as a man to search for her husband Florestan (Ben Heppner), unjustly imprisoned by his political enemy, Pizarro (Falk Struckmann). René Pape is Rocco, the jailor caught between conscience and duty.

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