Fidelio – review

Grand, LeedsThe opening night of Opera North's Fidelio was beset by problems that made assessment difficult. An electrical fault caused the pit lights to fail twice in act one: at the end of the quartet, then partway through Rocco's gold aria. The performance was suspended while the fault was fixed, but when it resumed, there was a notable dip in the intensity of Richard Armstrong's conducting, while both Jeremy White's Rocco and Emma Bell's Leonore were both affected.The whole evening, in fact,...

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