NEW YORK — Few opera choruses are as moving as the one a group of prisoners sings in Act 1 of Beethoven’s “Fidelio.” Released temporarily from their cells, the inmates almost whisper a hymnlike paean ...

Beethoven’s “Fidelio,” Op. 72 premiered in Vienna in 1805. The German libretto is by Joseph Sonnleithner, adapted from the French by Jean-Nicolas Bouilly, with work by others to reduce it from three ...

There isn’t likely a much more powerful and exciting way to experience Beethoven’s one and only opera, “Fidelio,” fully staged with topnotch singers and orchestra, than in the intimacy of the 230-seat ...

“First kill his wife!” exclaims Leonore at the climax of Fidelio, Beethoven’s only opera, when she emerges from her cross-dressing disguise to prevent the wicked prison governor Pizarro from murdering ...