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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: records)
' It must be something I can take up with sincerity and love' Beethoven once remarked, having dismissed a number of undistinguished opera plots. Fidelio, with its contrast between imprisonment and liberty, provided the material he needed to write a unique opera about justice and freedom. .....
LEIPZIG RADIO CHORUS
DRESDEN STATE ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL BöHM Act 1
3.15* Robert Simpson talks about the key system of Fidelio and its dramatic significance,
3.35* Fidelio, Act 2 (Martti Talvela on BBC2: next
Sunday evening)

Contributors

Unknown:
Josef Sonnleithner
Unknown:
Georg Friedrich Treitschke
Talks:
Robert Simpson
Source: Radio Times

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