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...year-old composer set the work aside for eight years. Then he undertook extensive revisions. "Hardly a musical number has been left unchanged," he wrote to a Vienna newspaper, "ard more than half the opera was composed anew." Finally, in May 1814, Ludwig van Beethoven's only opera, Fidelia, was produced again at a different Vienna theater-and immediately became...
Operas do convey a great deal of meaning, even in the unlikely areas of politics or sociology; Fidelia is a highly moving musical treatise on freedom, The Marriage of Figaro on the corruption of aristocracy, Don Carlos on the dilemmas of power. Opera plots and music are sexy. Most operatic heroines fail to wait for the wedding ceremony (Manon, Mimi, Tosca, Aïda, Carmen, Santuzza, Brünnhilde), and they (Norma, Marguerite, Sieglinde, Suor Angelica) have a lot of illegitimate children. Whatever one may think of the plots, one remembers the characters. Rigoletto may end up absurdly with...
Taylor and his wife, the former Fidelia Leverett Moore plan to move to their summer home in Jaffrey, N.H. He says he will "grow flowers and chase birds" and finish some long-postponed research on the French Assembly...
Although the cultural commissars have just been converted to Beethoven, East German music lovers have steadfastly applauded him, but for different reasons: at a recent East Berlin Staatsoper performance of Beethoven's opera Fidelia, fans burst into applause after the Act I Freedom Chorus, stopped the show after Florestan's famous Act II aria, with its line, "I boldly said the truth, and chains are my reward...
...Opera (NBC, 3-5 p.m.). A reprise of the fine network-commissioned English version of Beethoven's Fidelia. Color...