Details

"Fidelio" is the name assumed by Leonore, whose innocent husband Florestan has been imprisoned without trial by a corrupt political regime. Her risky two-year search for him has led to her disguising herself as a political agent, and infiltrating the prison where she believes him to be incarcerated Her fears are justified, and she even finds herself digging his grave, prior to summary execution. The moving love-story of their apparently doomed reconciliation reaches heights of joy when an unexpected amnesty leads to his release, and her pardon form impersonation.

Cast/Performers

Colin Judson, Sarah Redgwick, Ulrich Dunnebach, Elizabeth Byrne, Peter Sidhom, Ian Storey, Michael George

Creatives/Company

Music(s): Beethoven, Stephan von Breuning
Lyrics(s): Joseph von Sonnleithner, Georg Friedrich Treitschke (after Jean-Nicolas Bouilly's French libretto Leonore ou L'amour conjugal)
Company: Scottish Opera
Director: Tim Albery
Conductor(s): Richard Armstrong, Derek Clark
Design: Simon Daw (after Stewart Laing)
Lighting: Peter Mumford

Fidelio

Fidelio (Opera or Operetta) production archive for QTIX code T01705566492. Details of all Fidelio archived productions can be found under the QTIX code: S1932

Archive Listings

25 May 05
  to
10 Jun 05
Theatre Royal
Glasgow
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