Fidelio – review

The Dome, BrightonAung San Suu Kyi is guest director of this year's Brighton festival – albeit at long distance, due to concerns she might not be permitted to return to Burma should she leave. A keen admirer of Beethoven, she requested the festival tackle Fidelio, and the work was accordingly given a concert performance of extraordinary resonance that more than compensated for its occasional flaws. Adám Fischer conducted the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the Brighton Festival Chor...

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