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 ...

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 ...

Technically a singspiel (with musical numbers separated by spoken dialogue), Fidelio is Beethoven’s only opera. The powerful and innovative use of the orchestra found throughout it is not ...

Condensing Melville’s vast and discursive work into a three-hour opera may have seemed as foolish ... Absent from the Met since 2017, Fidelio returned in Jürgen Flimm’s stark 2000 production.

Sung in German with subtitles by The Metropolitan Opera, “Fidelio,” the only opera ever completed by Beethoven, is a deftly crafted story of love and adventure. In Act I, in a prison ...

NEW YORK, Jan. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Fidelio Acquisition Company, LLC, whose members are Sony Corporation of America, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation, Royal ...

Jürgen Flimm's 25-year-old production of Beethoven's Fidelio has returned to the Met for five performances ... who generated plenty of heat from there until the opera’s close. Her Florestan, David ...

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.

This is the set of the Pakistani drama “Adhi Bewafai,” or “Half Infidelity” — one of what some in other nations would call “soap operas.” But these dramas, it turns out, are not just for Pakistanis.

A man speaks out against a tyrant and gets dragged off to jail. That’s at the core of the plot of “Fidelio.” Unsurprisingly, as the Met Opera was reviving Beethoven’s lone operatic work, this very ...