Beethoven: Fidelio (complete opera recorded in 1978)

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Beethoven: Fidelio (complete opera recorded in 1978)
Vienna State Opera / Gundula Janowitz, Rene Kollo, Lucia Popp, Hans Sotin / Leonard Bernstein (cond)

[ Deutsche Grammophon DVD / DVD ]

Release Date: Wednesday 15 November 2006

This item is only available to us via Special Import.

Rated: G - Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Act 1993Suitable for General Audiences

Since its release on CD, Leonard Bernstein's rendering of Fidelio has achieved cult status.

147 Minutes

Since its release on CD, Leonard Bernstein's rendering of Fidelio has achieved cult status.

With this DVD release, the Vienna State Opera and Deutsche Grammophon present the original 1978 stage production, featuring some of the most remarkable singers of their time - including René Kollo, Gundula Janowitz, Hans Sotin and Lucia Popp

With its exceptional cast of singers - plus the classic, thoughtful staging by Otto Schenk and the musical expertise of Leonard Bernstein - this DVD is the ultimate Fidelio on film

"Every phrase, every articulation had its meaning, had a quasi-semantic content, so convincing, so right, that at this moment there was barely a question of any other interpretation."
-Opernwelt, Hanover

"A first-class evening of opera. Bernstein and Schenk, who are believers in the opera, sought to storm the peaks. And we were there too."
-Die Presse, Vienna

A first-time release on DVD!