Those who speak the truth to oppressive power still risk everything, and the idea that love can conquer such ugliness is the stuff of great opera. Political incarceration remains with us to this day. San Francisco Opera’s long-awaited production of Fidelio, Beethoven’s only opera, rests on the universal aspects of the story’s fight against oppression, a cast that inhabits every role with distinction and glorious conducting from Eun Sun Kim in her first full season as the company’s music director.
(HS) James Creswell (Rocco), Elza van den Heever (Leonore) and Greer Grimsley (Don Pizarro) © Cory Weaver United States Beethoven, Fidelio: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of San Francisco Opera / Eun Sun Kim (conductor).
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