Operafest Lisboa 2020
FIDELIO, Beethoven
Film by Ernst Wild
9 SEP, 21h30
Carpintarias de São Lázaro
Karl Böhm, conductor
Gustav Rudolf Sellner, stage director
Cast: Gwyneth Jones, James King, Gustav Neidlinger, Josef Greindl, Olivera Miljakovic, Martti Talvela
Orchestra and chorus of Deutsche Oper Berlin
The only opera written by the great German composer, Ludwig von Beethoven (1805), reveals the courage of Leonora, who disguises herself as Fidelio to save her husband from prison and certain death.
Celebratin Beethoven’s 250 years birth, we present this extraordinary cinematographic version of Fidelio by Ernst Wild (1070), with musical direction by the legendary German conductor Karl Böhm and a cast of stars, including Gwyneth Jones (Leonore/Fidelio), James King (Florestan), Stefan Greindl (Rocco) and Gustav Neidlinger (Pizarro).