Teatro alla Scala, Milano, Italy, Season 2014/15. M.°Daniel - TopicsExpress



          

Teatro alla Scala, Milano, Italy, Season 2014/15. M.°Daniel Barenboim conducts Fidelio by Beethoven. Fidelio (Leonore, oder Der Triumph der ehelichen Liebe Op. 72) is a German opera with spoken dialogue in two acts by Ludwig van Beethoven. Its his only opera. The German libretto was prepared by Joseph Sonnleithner from the French of Jean-Nicolas Bouilly, which had been used for the 1798 opera Léonore, ou L’amour conjugal by Pierre Gaveaux, and the 1804 opera Leonora by Ferdinando Paer (a score of which was owned by Beethoven). The opera tells how Leonore, disguised as a prison guard named Fidelio, rescues her husband Florestan from death in a political prison.
Posted on: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 12:00:16 +0000

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