Opera Explained - An Introduction To Beethoven: Fidelio

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
May 1, 2003
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BEETHOVEN
    • PERFORMER
      David, Bob, Timson, Neville, Peck, Elaine, Jason, Karen, Claxton, Archer
    Product Details ⌄
    Works ⌄

    1. Introduction to Fidelio

    2. The four overtures and plot outline

    3. Act 1: Marzelline and Jaquino

    4. Quartet: Marzelline, Leonore, Rocco, Jaquino

    5. Entrance of Pizarro

    6. Leonore - Recitative and Aria - 'Abscheulicher!'

    7. The Prisoners' Chorus - 'O welche Lust!'

    8. Leonore learns her husband's fate

    9. Act 1: Florestan in the dungeon

    10. Melodrama - Leonore and Rocco dig the grave

    11. Leonore reveals her true identity

    12. Finale - 'Liberation from tyranny'

    13. Leonore releases Florestan from his chains


This selection includes an explanatory commentary of this opera, written by Thomson Smillie and narrated by David Timson.