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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Few opera choruses are as moving as the one a group of prisoners sings in Act I of Beethoven’s “Fidelio.” Released temporarily from their cells, the inmates almost whisper a hymnlike paean to liberty: ...

Beethoven's opera Fidelio is the story of a man who has been unjustly imprisoned. Through that story, a group of enterprising artists has found a way to bring Fidelio, quite literally, into today's ...

Feeling the pinch of soft ticket sales, the Houston Symphony has canceled concert performances of Beethoven's operas Leonore and Fidelio to cut expenses. Set for March 18-21 at Jones Hall and Rice ...

In 2010 the British music critic Norman Lebrecht published “Why Mahler?” The book was an attempt to explain why the symphonies of Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) inspired both hatred and adoration in his ...

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, ...