
NEW PRODUCTION
Dates
5-29 Jun 2024
Location
Dutch National Opera & Ballet, Main Stage
Running time
TBA
Tickets
From € 30

Love, revolution and liberty
Liberation opera, revolutionary artwork, an ode to fidelity in love and utopian drama – Fidelio, Beethoven’s only opera, is all of these things. The numerous characterisations and interpretations add an aura of mystery to the opera but demonstrate above all that it is a unique work of musical theatre that expresses the hope for a humane future with justice and liberty for all.
The stage direction is in the hands of the Ukrainian director Andriy Zholdak. His visual imagery, replete with symbols, is reminiscent of great film directors such as Andrei Tarkovsky and Ingmar Bergman. Using a distinctive style, Zholdak explores the deeper layers of the universal human drama of Fidelio.
Photo: Marta Syrko
Performance information
Opera in two acts
Sung in German
Libretto Joseph Sonnleithner
Musical direction Andrés Orozco Estrada
Stage direction, set en lighting design Andriy Zholdak
Dramaturgy Luc Joosten
Don Fernando Frederik Bergman
Florestan Eric Cutler
Rocco TBA
Don Pizarro Nicholas Brownlee
Leonore Jacquelyn Wagner
Marzelline Anna El-Khashem
Jaquino Linard Vrielink
Chorus of Dutch National Opera
Chorus master Edward Ananian-Cooper
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Coproduction with Grand Théâtre de Genève
Part of the Holland Festival
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra performs Beethoven’s masterpiece
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Director Andriy Zholdak on Beethoven and Fidelio
Regisseur Andriy Zholdak over Beethoven en Fidelio

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra is one of the world’s top orchestras. Since it was founded in 1888, it has worked with leading conductors and soloists. Klaus Mäkelä is the orchestra’s artistic partner and will become its chief conductor in 2027. The orchestra plays around eighty concerts a year in the Concertgebouw and forty in other prestigious venues. It also reaches music lovers around the world with its videos, streaming, radio and TV broadcasts, CDs and DVDs.
Photo: Simon van Boxtel
Powerful emotions and big ideas meet in this symphonic, almost religious, music

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