Ludwig van Beethoven is the undisputed master of the symphony. It was always the great ambition of his life, however, to compose opera. Opera was not only a high-status genre, it was big business, and ...

Antonio Pappano introduces a production of Beethoven's only opera, a story of risk and triumph against a backdrop of revolution, starring Lise Davidsen and David Butt Philip. Show more Antonio Pappano ...

As part of our daily series Armchair Arts, Rupert Christiansen guides you through Ludwig van Beethoven’s 1814 opera Fidelio Rupert Christiansen was the opera critic and arts features writer for The ...

Leonore was Beethoven’s first version of Fidelio and René Jacobs eloquently champions the earlier score in this lithe live recording As we know it today, Fidelio, Beethoven’s only opera, was first ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose works include Music: Healing The Rift, a personal history of modern music. He has been involved in music as a composer, ...

Review: Beethoven’s Fidelio. West Australian Symphony Orchestra, West Australian Opera and Perth Festival. There’s something disconcertingly compartmentalised about opera – particularly opera in ...

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, ...

Beethoven’s opera is full of beautiful music and beautiful ideas. So why did I decide to make my own version? I was in my early 20s when I first saw Fidelio, Beethoven’s only opera, on stage. I didn’t ...