Pacific Opera Victoria presents: Fidelio

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Wednesday, October 17th, 2018
Thursday, October 11, at 8 pm Saturday, October 13, at 8pm Wednesday, October 17, at 7 pm Friday, October 19, at 8pm Sunday, October 21, at 2:30 pm

Music by Ludwig van Beethoven Libretto by Joseph von Sonnleithner, revised in 1806 by Stephan von Breuning and in 1814 by Georg Friedrich Treitschke, after Jean-Nicolas Bouilly's Léonore, ou L'amour conjugal (Leonora, or Married Love).

Sung in German with English Surtitles

A woman risks everything to rescue her husband, a political prisoner.

Beethoven's only opera, Fidelio tells a story as eternal as tyranny and as powerful as love. It goes straight to the heart of what it means to be human.

A timeless call for human justice, this magnificent work expresses Beethoven's heartfelt sense of the fragility of freedom and the necessity of hope – all with music of heart-stopping beauty.

https://www.pov.bc.ca/fidelio.html