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Fidelio

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

Opera in two acts
Music by Beethoven
Libretto by JOSEF SONNLEITHNER and GEORG FRIEDRICH TREITSCHKE (sung in German)
(gramophone records)
Cast in order of singing:
PHILHARMONIA CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA conducted by otto KLEMPERER
The action takes place in a state prison near Seville, during the 18th century
Act 1 The prison courtyard
3.20* Talk: Robert Simpson on the key system of Fidelio and its dramatic significance.
3.40* Fidelio
Act 2 A dungeon in the prison, changing to the prison gates

Contributors

Unknown:
Josef Sonnleithner
Unknown:
Georg Friedrich Treitschke
Unknown:
Robert Simpson
Jacquino a porter at the prison:
Gerhard Unger (tenor)
Marzelline, Rocco's daughter:
Ingeborg Hallstein (soprano)
Rocco prison jailer:
Gottlob Frick (bass)
Leonora, wife of Florestan, dis Fidelio guised:
Christa Ludwig (mezzo-Sop)
Don Pizarro. governor of the:
Walter Berry (baritone)
Florestan. a Spanish nobleman and political prisoner:
Jon Vickers (tenor)
Don Fernando Minister of State ..........:
Franz Crass (bass)
Source: Radio Times

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