A staple of the operatic repertoire, Beethoven’s only opera continues to be regularly revived and treated with respect by opera companies across the globe, and it’s easy to see why. Fidelio is rich in ...

This capsule review is greatly abbreviated from the full review that ran in The Santa Fe New Mexican immediately following the opening of the production. It has also been updated to reflect cast ...

As long as we have prisons and government, and as long as profit and power remain factors in that equation, we do well to keep the warning of “Fidelio” in our cultural employ. The abuse of power that ...

Fidelio at the San Francisco Opera (photo by Cory Weaver/San Francisco Opera) SAN FRANCISCO — Opera is for everyone. Cole Thomason-Redus, a program manager in the San Francisco Opera’s Department of ...

If you believe musical performance fundamentally is an expression of freedom, then “Fidelio,” Ludwig van Beethoven’s only opera, is your über text. The famed work is now at Lyric Opera of Chicago with ...

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If “operatic” is a synonym for “big,” Herman Melville’s sprawling novel “Moby-Dick” should be ideal source material for the stage. Jake Heggie’s 2010 operatic treatment certainly took up a lot of ...

Condensing Melville’s vast and discursive work into a three-hour opera may have seemed as foolish as Captain Ahab’s increasingly desperate voyage to find the whale that maimed him, but Heggie and ...

Beethoven’s “Fidelio” is a brave opera of liberation. It may also be a dramatically flawed opera, and one Beethoven anguished over longer than any of his other great works. But liberation itself is a ...

It is always a great pleasure to zip down the M40 to the glorious Wormsley Estate, the setting for Garsington Opera. With glorious weather, red kites wheeling in the sky and an opera house that feels ...

New productions of Beethoven’s “Fidelio” and Mozart’s “Cosi fan tutte,” the West Coast premiere of Poul Ruders’ “The Handmaid’s Tale,” and the company’s first-ever production of Alexander Zemlinsky’s ...