Beethoven: Fidelio

Classical Music, Opera, Theatre

The Met: Live In HD At Müpa Budapest

In addition to singing the title role in Tosca, Lise Davidsen, one of the biggest stars of the Met's 2024/25 season, will also appear in the series of worldwide broadcasts as the husband-liberator Leonore in Fidelio. Singing the role of Rocco in this revival of Jürgen Flimm's 2000 staging will be the German bass, René Pape, making his return to the Met after an absence of several years, with Briton David Butt Philip taking on the diabolical prison warden, Don Pizarro and Florestan, who is languishing in the depths of the dungeon, being played by Tomasz Konieczny, the Polish bass-baritone also well known from his appearances in the Budapest Wagner Days festival here. 

The broadcast will be sung in the original language, and shown with Hungarian and English subtitles.

Program and cast

Conductor: Susanna Mälkki 

Performers:

Leonore: Lise Davidsen ,

Marzelline: Ying Fang 

Florestan: David Butt Philip 

Jaquino: Magnus Dietrich 

Don Pizarro: Tomasz Konieczny 

Rocco: René Pape 

Don Fernando: Stephen Milling 

Featuring:

The Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra 

Creators:

set design: Robert Israel 

costumes: Florence von Gerkan 

lighting: Duane Schuler 

director: Jürgen Flimm