Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People may be surprised to learn that classical composer Beethoven wrote an opera. Mid-Ohio Civic Opera will provide the education ...

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 ...

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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 ...

The evening begins with Manuel De Falla’s set of songs inspired by different parts of his home country of Spain, Siete Canciones Populares Españolas, with Daniela Mack as soloist and an arrangement of ...

If you believe musical performance fundamentally is an expression of freedom, then “Fidelio,” Ludwig van Beethoven’s only opera, is your über text. The famed work is now at Lyric Opera of Chicago with ...

One week after she conducted the opening of San Francisco Opera’s new production of Wagner’s Parsifal, Caroline H. Hume Music Director Eun Sun Kim led the San Francisco Opera Orchestra and ...

As long as we have prisons and government, and as long as profit and power remain factors in that equation, we do well to keep the warning of “Fidelio” in our cultural employ. The abuse of power that ...

People may be surprised to learn that classical composer Beethoven wrote an opera. Mid-Ohio Civic Opera will provide the education with four upcoming performances of "Fidelio" in Mansfield, Wooster, ...

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 ...