True love's fidelity triumphs over tyranny.

Music Director James Conlon opens LA Opera's season with Beethoven's Fidelio, a celebration of humanity's desire for freedom and justice. More than 200 years after its premiere, this drama of wrongful imprisonment and the triumph of true love remains as relevant as ever.

Unjustly incarcerated by a ruthless oppressor, Florestan languishes in a secret prison, held without charge or trial. His wife Leonore, desperate to find him and willing to die if she must, adopts the disguise of a young man - Fidelio - and becomes the jailer's assistant, hoping to free her beloved husband.

This astonishingly forceful contemporary production resonates with edge-of-your-seat excitement and matchless music, complete with stunning arias, inspiring choruses, two of the most famous quartets in all of opera, and exuberant orchestral writing.

LEONORE	Anja Kampe	View Profile
FLORESTAN	Klaus Florian Vogt	View Profile
DON PIZARRO	Eike Wilm Schulte	View Profile
ROCCO	Matti Salminen	View Profile
DON FERNANDO	Oleg Bryjak	View Profile
MARZELLINE	Rebekah Camm	View Profile
JACQUINO	Greg Fedderly	View Profile
FIRST PRISONER	Robert MacNeil	View Profile
SECOND PRISONER	James Creswell	View Profile

CONDUCTOR	James Conlon	View Profile
DIRECTOR	Pier' Alli	View Profile
DESIGNER	Pier' Alli	View Profile
CHOREOGRAPHER	Nicola Bowie	View Profile
ASSOCIATE CONDUCTOR/CHORUS MASTER	Grant Gershon	View Profile

RUNNING TIME
2 hours 50 minutes, including one intermission.

PRE-PERFORMANCE LECTURE: [ Listen ] [ Watch ]
One hour prior to each performance.
Music Director James Conlon interviewed by Kimberlea Daggy.
Pre-performance lectures are generously sponsored by the Flora L. Thornton Foundation and the Opera League of Los Angeles.

PRODUCTION NOTES:
Company Premiere.
Production from Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía (Valencia, Spain).
Sung in German with English supertitles.

Artists and dates subject to change.