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<\/div><\/div>[vc_empty_space height=\u00bb30px\u00bb][vc_column_text]A civil rights campaigner, who knows about an official\u2019s corruption, disappears in jail. And only by bluffing her way into the system using a false identity, does the incarcerated man\u2019s wife manage to save her husband from a murder plot in the nick of time. It is no wonder that Ludwig van Beethoven\u2019s only opera \u2013 \u201cFidelio\u201d \u2013 was banned before its scheduled premiere at Theater an der Wien in 1805. To this day, the tremendous energy of the opera moves people to protest against injustices. After all, Beethoven turned the human desire for freedom into a hymn\u2026[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=\u00bb30px\u00bb][vc_column_text]Beethoven\u2019s \u201cFidelio\u201d is an homage to personal courage, moral integrity and a love that overcomes any obstacle. It lets its heroes Leonore\/Fidelio and Florestan unite in the celebration of the duet \u201cO namenlose Freude\u201d. A good 200 years after the premiere, all of this is still highly topical. This is why we confront the content of the opera with present-day reality. To do this, Thomas H\u00f6ft complements the story set in the time of the French Revolution with stories of people of our time who have had to flee persecution and atrocities in their home countries and make their way to Austria \u2013 stories about real life Leonores and Florestans of today, so to speak.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=\u00bb30px\u00bb][vc_column_text]Johanna Winkel, soprano as Leonore
\nJohannes Chum, tenor as Florestan, prisoner
\nAdrian Er\u00f6d, bariton as Don Fernando, minister
\nJochen Kupfer, bariton as Don Pizarro, gouverneur
\nJan Petryka , tenor as Jaquino, assistant to Rocco
\nThomas Stimmel, bass as Rocco, gaoler (guard)
\nTetiana Miyus, soprano as Marzelline, his daughter
\nFidelio-Choir
\n(rehearsal director: Franz M. Herzog)
\nstyriarte Festspiel-Orchester
\nConductor: Andr\u00e9s Orozco-Estrada
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