Opera in two acts
Libretto after Bouilly by Sonnleithner and Treitschke
Music by Beethoven sung In German: on records
JAQUINO, the prison porter (sung by Friedrich Lenz , spoken by Wolfgang Spier ); MARZELLINE, daughter of Rocco (sung by Irmgard Seefried , spoken by Ruth Hellberg ); Rocco, gaoler (sung by Gotrlob Frick , spoken by Wilhelm Borchert ); LEONORE, wife of Florestan, disguised as a youth under the name of Fidelio (sung by Leonie Rysanek , spoken by Anne Kersten ); Don PIZARRO , governor of the prison (sung by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau , spoken by Walter Franck ); FLORESTAN, a prisoner (sung by Ernst Haefliger , spoken by Siegmar Schneider ); DON FERNANDO, the minister of state (sung by Kieth Engen )
Bavarian State Opera Chorus
Bavarian State Orchestra
CONDUCTED BY FERENC FRIIfAY
Scene: Spain in the sixteenth century
ACT 1
The courtyard of a state prison near Seville
5-Myth and Cosmology
D. J. FIRLEY , Reader in Greek and Latin at University College, London, considers the relationship between the theories of the earliest Greek philosophers and myths about the origin of the world in Greece and the Near East.
Acr 2
Scene 1: A dungeon
Scene 2: The square outside the prison
by Jan Carew
Far in the interior of British Guiana, beyond the forests and swamps of the mysterious Canje river, lies a vast barren plain scantily covered with tall grass.....
Suite Italienne played by Pina Carmirelli (violin)
Marcella Barzetti (piano)
