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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.
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Soprano Ailyn Pérez makes her Opera Company debut as Marzelline, who has fallen in love with the new prison assistant, Fidelio.
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Tenor Brian Anderson, making his Opera Company debut as Jaquino, tries to win over his beloved Marzelline, soprano Ailyn Pérez.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Bass-baritone Greer Grimsley rehearses Don Pizarro’s revenge aria while Maestro Corrado Rovaris conducts.
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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.
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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.
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