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Fidelio - Week Three


A director’s work is never done! Director Robert Driver spends time preparing for rehearsals, even when he’s at home, by going through the score and making notes.


Soprano Ailyn Pérez makes her Opera Company debut as Marzelline, who has fallen in love with the new prison assistant, Fidelio.

Tenor Brian Anderson, making his Opera Company debut as Jaquino, tries to win over his beloved Marzelline, soprano Ailyn Pérez.


Soprano Christine Goerke returns to the Academy of Music stage as Leonore, who has disguised herself as the young man Fidelio in order to find and free her husband.


Marzelline, soprano Ailyn Pérez, has fallen in love with her father’s new assistant Fidelio, soprano Christine Goerke, who keeps her true identity a secret in hopes of learning the whereabouts of her husband.


Fidelio, soprano Christine Goerke, begs the jailer Rocco, bass Julian Rodescu, to allow her to help with the prisoner in the deepest dungeon, whom she believes to be her husband Florestan.
Florestan, tenor Anthony Dean Griffey, rejoices with his wife Leonore, soprano Christine Goerke, after he is released from his hidden cell and freed from his chains.


Bass-baritone Greer Grimsley rehearses Don Pizarro’s revenge aria while Maestro Corrado Rovaris conducts.

Bass Kirk Eichelberger returns as Don Fernando, who arrives at the prison just in time to discover Pizarro’s misdeeds and set his friend Florestan free.


One of the elements of designer Jun Kaneko’s set are hundreds of hand-drawn images that have been made into animation and projected onto the stage, as seen above during the opera’s overture.