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  • Fidelio – Ingela Brimberg als Leonore Bernd Uhlig

    Fidelio – Ingela Brimberg als Leonore Bernd Uhlig

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  • Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio – Ruth Tromboukis

    Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio – Ruth Tromboukis

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  • Fidelio: Publikumsstimmen zur Premiere – Ruth Tromboukis

    Fidelio: Publikumsstimmen zur Premiere – Ruth Tromboukis

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  • Fidelio: Ein Probenbesuch – Ruth Tromboukis

    Fidelio: Ein Probenbesuch – Ruth Tromboukis

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  • Fidelio – Sua Jo als Marzelline, Gideon Poppe als Jaquino Bernd Uhlig

    Fidelio – Sua Jo als Marzelline, Gideon Poppe als Jaquino Bernd Uhlig

    © Bernd Uhlig

  • Fidelio – Sua Jo als Marzelline, Gideon Poppe als Jaquino, Tobias Kehrer als Rocco, Ingela Brimberg als Leonore Bernd Uhlig

    Fidelio – Sua Jo als Marzelline, Gideon Poppe als Jaquino, Tobias Kehrer als Rocco, Ingela Brimberg als Leonore Bernd Uhlig

    © Bernd Uhlig

  • Fidelio – Jordan Shanahan als Don Pizarro Bernd Uhlig

    Fidelio – Jordan Shanahan als Don Pizarro Bernd Uhlig

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  • Fidelio – u. a. Jordan Shanahan als Don Pizarro Bernd Uhlig

    Fidelio – u. a. Jordan Shanahan als Don Pizarro Bernd Uhlig

    © Bernd Uhlig

  • Fidelio – u. a. Tobias Kehrer als Rocco, Ingela Brimberg als Leonore Bernd Uhlig

    Fidelio – u. a. Tobias Kehrer als Rocco, Ingela Brimberg als Leonore Bernd Uhlig

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  • Fidelio – Ingela Brimberg als Leonore, Tobias Kehrer als Rocco Bernd Uhlig

    Fidelio – Ingela Brimberg als Leonore, Tobias Kehrer als Rocco Bernd Uhlig

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  • Fidelio – Robert Watson als Florestan, Ingela Brimberg als Leonore Bernd Uhlig

    Fidelio – Robert Watson als Florestan, Ingela Brimberg als Leonore Bernd Uhlig

    © Bernd Uhlig

  • Fidelio – Ingela Brimberg als Leonore, Jordan Shanahan als Don Pizarro, Tobias Kehrer als Rocco, Robert Watson als Florestan Bernd Uhlig

    Fidelio – Ingela Brimberg als Leonore, Jordan Shanahan als Don Pizarro, Tobias Kehrer als Rocco, Robert Watson als Florestan Bernd Uhlig

    © Bernd Uhlig

  • Fidelio – Robert Watson als Florestan, Ingela Brimberg als Leonore, Thomas Lehman als Don Fernando Bernd Uhlig

    Fidelio – Robert Watson als Florestan, Ingela Brimberg als Leonore, Thomas Lehman als Don Fernando Bernd Uhlig

    © Bernd Uhlig

This opera is a monolith: it is considered the freedom opera par excellence and is probably the first-ever specifically German opera in its fusion of rescue opera, humanist oratorio and melodrama. David Hermann focuses on the manipulation mechanisms of power and powerlessness ... Conductor: Stephan Zilias; Director: David Hermann; With Artur Garbas, Joel Allison, Oreste Cosimo, Jane Archibald, Tobias Kehrer, Lilit Davtyan, Thomas Cilluffo a. o.
On the workSuffused with the spirit of the French Revolution, FIDELIO explores issues of individual and collective freedom in the face of tyrannical suppression. For his one venture into opera Beethoven chose a political event rooted in the French tradition of rescue opera. It tells the story of a fearless woman, Leonore, who triggers the end of the old order by having her husband released from prison, where he has been detained on a whim. Far from evincing Beethoven’s inability to compose a coherent opera, this mixed bag of genre elements – German light opera, heartfelt arias, exquisite orchestral interludes and a symphonic close – reflects his revolutionary idea of dramaturgical opposites and subversion of form. The further Leonore descends into the depths of the dungeon, the clearer the existential core of the drama becomes. In an explosive choral and symphonic finale, which, with its quote from Schiller’s “Ode to Joy”, foreshadows Beethoven’s “Ninth”, the uncompromising affirmation of liberty, human rights and humanist ideals bursts forth. The work has repeatedly been appropriated for political ends - on both sides of the spectrum – with Leonore acquiring iconic status. Yet Beethoven’s musical vision of a humanist society still manages to thwart all attempts to encapsulate the opera in simplified interpretations.

On the productionDavid Hermann, who has attracted plaudits at the Deutsche Oper for his stagings of such diverse works as THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL, ORESTEIA and THE MAKROPULOS AFFAIR, has now teamed up with set and costume designer Johannes Schütz to tackle Beethoven’s masterpiece. Their production homes in on interior and exterior lives, liberty and captivity, power and powerlessness. For FIDELIO they have created a set that renders, in poetic images, the jail’s hierarchy and mechanisms of manipulation, so vividly portrayed by Beethoven and his librettist. With his sensitive and psychological touch, David Hermann lays bare the deformations and dangerous instability of, and strain felt by, characters who are part of this unbridled system – be it beyond their control as prisoners or “willingly” as wardens or employees. Leonore, too, ventures deep into the system, moving from light into darkness, with the pressure steadily mounting on all the protagonists as she does so. Is liberty something that can be fully achieved without a seed of new sorrow being sown?

Artists/Collaborators: Stephan Zilias (Musikalische Leitung), David Hermann (Inszenierung), Johannes Schütz (Bühne, Kostüme), Ulrich Niepel (Licht), Jeremy Bines (Chöre), Carolin Müller-Dohle (Dramaturgie), Artur Garbas (Don Fernando), Joel Allison (Don Pizarro), Oreste Cosimo (Florestan), Jane Archibald (Leonore), Tobias Kehrer (Rocco), Lilit Davtyan (Marzelline), Thomas Cilluffo (Jaquino), John Irvin (Erster Gefangener), Tadeusz Milewski (Zweiter Gefangener), Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin (Chöre), Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin (Orchester)

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