Met Opera 2024-25: Fidelio
COMPOSER: Ludwig van Beethoven
CONDUCTOR: Susanna Mälkki
PRODUCTION: Jürgen Flimm
SET DESIGNER: Robert Israel
COSTUME DESIGNER: Florence von Gerkan
LIGHTING DESIGNER: Duane Schuler
CAST: Lise Davidsen, Ying Fang, David Butt Philip, Magnus Dietrich, Tomasz Konieczny, René Pape, Stephen Milling
RUN TIME: 154 minutes
Following a string of awe-inspiring Live in HD performances, Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen returns to the Metropolitan Opera as Leonore, the faithful wife who risks everything to save her husband from the clutches of tyranny in Beethoven’s Fidelio. Completing the distinguished cast is British tenor David Butt Philip as the political prisoner Florestan, Polish bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny as the villainous Don Pizarro, veteran German bass René Pape as the jailer Rocco, Chinese soprano Ying Fang and German tenor Magnus Dietrich as the young Marzelline and Jaquino, and Danish bass Stephen Milling as the principled Don Fernando. Susanna Mälkki conducts.