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Fidelio / Ludwig van Beethoven.

Met Opera on Demand Available online

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Format:
Video
Author/Creator:
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827, composer, composer.
Contributor:
Mattila, Karita, performer, performer.
Heppner, Ben, performer, performer.
Struckmann, Falk, performer, performer.
Pape, René, performer, performer.
Levine, James, 1943-2021, conductor, conductor.
Flimm, Jürgen, 1941-2023, director, director.
Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.), performer, performer.
Standardized Title:
Fidelio (1814)
Language:
English
German
Subjects (All):
Operas.
Genre:
Video recordings.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (1 video file (2 hr., 3 min., 12 sec.)) : sound, colo
Other Title:
Met Opera on Demand.
Place of Publication:
[New York, New York] : [Metropolitan Opera], [2000]
Language Note:
Sung in German; English subtitles.
System Details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
digital
video file streaming video file
Summary:
Jürgen Flimm's haunting production of Beethoven's only opera brings the work's desperate plea for freedom and justice into the modern era, reminding us just how powerful and urgent its story is. Under James Levine's passionate leadership, Beethoven's score blazes, as does the superb cast. Karita Mattila is Leonore, the faithful wife who disguises herself as a man to search for her husband Florestan (Ben Heppner), unjustly imprisoned by his political enemy, Pizarro (Falk Struckmann). René Pape is Rocco, the jailor caught between conscience and duty.
Contents:
Opening credits
Overture
Jetzt, Schätzchen, jetzt sind wir allein
Dialogue: Jaquino, Jaquino
O wär' ich schon mit dir vereint
Dialogue: Marzelline, ist Fidelio noch night zurück
Mir ist so wunderbar
Dialogue: Höre, Fidelio!
Hat man nicht auch Gold beineben
Dialogue: Das stimmt, Meister Rocco
Gut Söhnchen, gut, hab immer Mut
March
Dialogue: Ist etwas Neues vorgefallen?
Ha!, welch' ein Augenblick!
Dialogue: Hauptmann!
Jetzt, Alter, hat es Eile!
Abscheulicher! Wo eilst du hin?
Komm Hoffnung
Dialogue: Fidelio!
O welche Lust!
Nun sprecht, wie ging's?
Leb'wohl, du warmes Sonnenlicht
Introduction
Gott! welch dunkel hier
In des Lebens Frühlingstagen
Dialogue: Wie kalt ist es in diesem unterirdischen Gewölbe!
Nur hurtig fort, nur frisch gegraben
Dialogue: Er erwacht!
Euch werde Lohn in bessern Welten
Dialogue: Alles ist bereit
Er sterbe!
Meine Leonore
O namenlose Freude!
Heil sei dem Tag
Des besten Königs Wink und Wille
Wer ein holdes Weib errungen
Bows and closing credits.
Participant:
Karita Mattila ; Ben Heppner ; Falk Struckmann ; René Pape ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; James Levine, conductor.
Credits:
Director, Jürgen Flimm.
Notes:
Recorded live in 2000 at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, New York.
Description based on vendor-supplied metadata.
OCLC:
859395938
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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