This “Fidelio” isn’t just excellently sung ... with an otherworldly strength that befits an opera in which characters are more archetypal than human. The soprano Ying Fang has a nearly ...

For more than seven decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...

Jake Heggie’s 2010 operatic treatment certainly took up a lot of aural and visual space at its Metropolitan Opera premiere on Monday, but there was an emptiness at its heart.

A crucial decision by the opera’s creators—one which ultimately ... Absent from the Met since 2017, Fidelio returned in Jürgen Flimm’s stark 2000 production. Revived by Gina Lapinski ...

Fidelio, Beethoven's only opera, will be performed at the Metropolitan Opera with a cast featuring notable artists. The production will highlight the theme of freedom and the resilience of the ...

There were several versions of FIDELIO (earlier ones known as LEONORE) before the one we have today. (Not that it’s the only opera to have such troubles.) As noted in the program, it has a ...

Davidsen Goes out with a Bang,” read the headline in Broadway World’s review of the Metropolitan Opera revival of Beethoven’s “Fidelio.” And ...

When Benjamin Britten made an opera out of one of Melville’s other ... Last Tuesday, she essayed Leonore in Beethoven’s “Fidelio” in a revival of the 2000 Jürgen Flimm production, which ...

Following a string of awe-inspiring Met performances, soprano Lise Davidsen stars as Leonore, who risks everything to save her husband from the clutches of tyranny. Tenor David Butt Philip is the ...