The Wagner concert was titled “Gods and Mortals,” an oddity since Wagner’s gods perish and are thus quite mortal. The program ...

Francesca Zambello’s potent vision isn’t quite enough to lift "Fidelio" beyond more than a few inspired moments.

The lowest point is the highest point in Washington National Opera’s new production of Beethoven’s “Fidelio.” Deep in Pizarro ...

The Washington National Opera’s production of Beethoven’s Fidelio is a triumph of elegant, efficient style and directorial ...

The magnificent music in Beethoven's only opera is poorly served by an over-zealous director in the current Covent Garden ...

The overture to Fidelio is one of the greatest in all opera and through typical bullheadishness, Beethoven has written some ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This image released by the Washington National Opera shows Bass ...

As we see all too often, an opera director can easily fall into the trap of over-thinking a new production and that is what seems to have happened in Fidelio at the Royal Opera House. Beethoven's ...

Awakening to the power of the Archetypes is vital to Metaphor: ReFantazio's story, which is woven into its party's anxieties and resolves with care.

Beethoven’s only opera Fidelio is hard to pin down. Strip it down to its bare bones and you have a romance, but it wears the flesh of a political thriller. The cross-dressing protagonist could ...

Tobias Kratzer’s 2020 staging of Fidelio at the Royal Ballet and Opera is a compelling and audacious reinterpretation of Beethoven’s ‘rescue opera’ that divided critics when new. And it’s not hard to ...