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Get all the top news & discounts for Brazil & beyond. The performance on April 25, Friday, at 8 pm, will be broadcast live for free on the YouTube channel. Soprano Eiko Senda (as Leonore/Fidelio) and ...

reporting from SAN FRANCISCO — “Fidelio” is opera’s never-ending fixer-upper. Beethoven’s only opera and the score the composer spent the most time on almost never works, yet it is all but ...

Amid the many new operas making their premieres these days, the most contemporary opera you’re likely to see this season is one that was written two centuries ago. We’re talking about “Fidelio.” With ...

Through July 6, On Site Opera’s “To My Distant Love” recasts a Beethoven song cycle as a one-on-one telephonic encounter. By Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim A love letter fluttered into my inbox last week ...

Beethoven’s opera is full of beautiful music and beautiful ideas. So why did I decide to make my own version? I was in my early 20s when I first saw Fidelio, Beethoven’s only opera, on stage. I didn’t ...