A Cleveland Institute of Music graduate, Jakubiak remains a Cleveland Orchestra fan -- even as she continues to sing with ...

High musical standards salvage ENO's radical new Fidelio, while Royal Opera's Elektra is outstanding Kafka's The Trial, glass and steel tower blocks, a walk-on part for Casanova and a hang-on part for ...

Fidelio feels to me an unfinished opera. The music is extraordinary - I know every note of it by heart, but the libretto Beethoven used is weak, because of its conventionality. It's a very simple ...

NEW YORK — Few opera choruses are as moving as the one a group of prisoners sings in Act 1 of Beethoven’s “Fidelio.” Released temporarily from their cells, the inmates almost whisper a hymnlike paean ...

Created for both Deaf and hearing audiences, the semi-staged production draws on both American Sign Language's (ASL) expressive, gestural poetry and Beethoven's music to tell the powerful tale of ...

The most difficult thing in Fidelio “is that there is this tendency to be loud from the first to the last note. You have to really work on the fine and subtle moments,” German conductor Michael ...

Beethoven’s only opera, “Fidelio,” was composed in 1804-5, just after the protracted upheavals of the French Revolution. Passionately concerned with the rights of man, his opera portrays ideals of ...

Fidelio Angela Denoke, Jon Villars, Alan Held, Laszlo Polgar, Juliane Banse, Rainer Trost, Thomas Quasthoff; Arnold Schoenberg Choir; Berlin Philharmonic; Simon Rattle, conductor; EMI Classics (two ...

Michael Tilson Thomas has said in the past that the San Francisco Symphony’s operatic projects over the years — concert and semistaged productions of works by Wagner, Rimsky-Korsakov, Britten and ...