Could I have afforded it, had there been more performances and not sold out, I’d have returned to be helped as never before in further understanding some of the mysteries, weirdnesses and journeys to ...

His first all-Chopin concert was given in sentimental homage to his birthplace, Novosibirsk; the second was a BBC Lunchtime Prom of Mazurkas; and this third, under circumstances even more exceptional ...

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Concert performances of operas are a lot cheaper than staged versions, and they can be effective if done just so. They're laden with pitfalls, though, and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra's Friday-night ...

Beethoven's only opera could well be a metaphor for current times and Philharmonia did it stirring justice, while Romany ensemble Taraf de Caliu delivered street party music with dexterity and ...

The Houston Symphony announced today that Tony Award winner and three-time Emmy Award nominee Phylicia Rashad will join the cast of its new semi-staged, concert version of Beethoven's Fidelio, the ...

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 ...

Following the great success of Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” in 2019 the WASO assembled another star-studded international cast to perform an opera in concert form: Beethoven’s Fidelio. Celebrating ...

Daniel Barenboim’s latest attempt to transform Orchestra Hall into a theatrically credible opera house–a staged performance of “Fidelio” by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra heard Tuesday night–was ...

Made up of solo performers, professors from European music schools and members of other orchestras, including the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, this ad hoc group has built an impressive reputation. Abbado ...

reporting from SAN FRANCISCO — “Fidelio” is opera’s never-ending fixer-upper. Beethoven’s only opera and the score the composer spent the most time on almost never works, yet it is all but ...