A Cleveland Institute of Music graduate, Jakubiak remains a Cleveland Orchestra fan -- even as she continues to sing with ...

Cleveland Orchestra’s fourth annual Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Opera & Humanities Festival, running now through May 24, ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The lowest point is the highest point in Washington National Opera’s new production of Beethoven’s “Fidelio.” Deep in Pizarro’s ...

There isn’t likely a much more powerful and exciting way to experience Beethoven’s one and only opera, “Fidelio,” fully staged with topnotch singers and orchestra, than in the intimacy of the 230-seat ...

“Fidelio” is Beethoven’s only opera. It took 11 years (1803-1814) and multiple revisions to cobble into its final form, which may explain why there is no other opera by Beethoven. The plot – ...

Beethoven’s “Fidelio,” Op. 72 premiered in Vienna in 1805. The German libretto is by Joseph Sonnleithner, adapted from the French by Jean-Nicolas Bouilly, with work by others to reduce it from three ...

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 ...