Name: Fidelio
Start: 2024-10-03T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-10-26T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Semperoper

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Semperoper Dresden

Tenor

David Butt Philip

Florestan

Baritone

Markus Marquardt

Don Pizzaro

Soprano

Marlis Petersen

Leonore

Jasmin Delfs

Marzelline

Bass

Georg Zeppenfeld

Rocco

Mario Lerchenberger

Jaquino

Neven Crnić

Don Fernando

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Sächsischer Staatsopernchor Dresden

Symphony Chorus Dresden – Extra Chorus Of The Semper Opera House Dresden

Conductor

David Afkham

Stage director

Christine Mielitz

Set designer

Peter Heilein

Costume designer

Lighting designer

Eike Wilm Schulte

Chorus master

Jan Hoffmann

Dramaturge

Wolfgang Pieschel

Singer

Jörg Reißmann

First prisoner

Torsten Schäpan

Norbert Klesse

Second prisoner

Holger Steinert

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Staatskapelle Dresden

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Fidelio

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Fidelio Beethoven

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Christine Mielitz’s production of Beethoven’s »Fidelio« celebrated its premiere on 7 October 1989. While local citizens took to the streets in front of the Semperoper in support of democracy and human rights, the director placed this »opera of liberation« in a contemporary prison courtyard featuring a surveillance tower and barbed wire. At a time of revolution, terror and war, Ludwig van Beethoven wrote his opera about a woman who, disguised as a man, tries to rescue her husband from illegal incarceration in a secret prison. In the story, the heroism of Leonore is juxtaposed with the banal world of the prison warden Rocco; simultaneously, grand opera is contrasted with German Singspiel. At the end comes liberation, delineated by Beethoven in almost superhuman, utopian music. More than three decades after its premiere, this Dresden production of »Fidelio« from 1989 has lost none of its intensity.

Am 7. Oktober 1989 feierte Christine Mielitz’ Inszenierung von Beethovens »Fidelio« ihre Premiere. Während vor der Semperoper die Bürger für Demokratie und Menschenrechte auf die Straße gingen, zeigte die Regisseurin die »Befreiungsoper« in einem Gefängnishof der Gegenwart mit Überwachungsturm und Stacheldraht. Ludwig van Beethoven schrieb seine Oper über eine Frau, die als Mann verkleidet ihren zu Unrecht in ein Geheimgefängnis verschleppten Ehemann retten will, unter dem Eindruck von Revolution, Terrorherrschaft und Krieg. In seiner Oper steht der Heldenmut der Leonore neben der Alltagswelt des Gefängniswärters Rocco, steht große Oper neben deutschem Singspiel. Doch am Ende steht eine Befreiung, die Beethoven in schier übermenschliche, utopische Klänge kleidet. Über drei Jahrzehnte nach der Premiere hat die Dresdener »Fidelio«-Produktion von 1989 nichts von ihrer Eindringlichkeit verloren.

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Fidelio by Beethoven, From (2024/2024), Directed by Christine Mielitz,, Conductor David Afkham, Semperoper, Dresden, Germany

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