Fidelio | Opera review

Millennium Centre, CardiffBeethoven's wonderfully strange stage work, an 18th-century singspiel that transforms itself into a 19th-century romantic opera, has its problems, to which perceptive productions generally find more or less convincing solutions. But of all the adjectives that can be applied to Welsh National Opera's new staging – pretentious, perverse, profoundly unmusical – perceptive is not among them. Few of the intrinsic problems are even addressed by Giuseppe Frigeni, who direc...

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