Beethoven wrote only one opera. It went through multiple revisions over ten years, and when it appeared in our now beloved final version on stage in Vienna on May 23,
Composed and re-composed for almost a decade, surviving in three different versions with four different overtures, Fidelio – Beethoven’s only opera – was hard-won, writes Alexandra Coghlan.
SANTA MONICA, Calif. A touring production of Ludwig van Beethoven’s only opera Fidelio has just ended its four-city tour in February, with stops at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Mondavi Center at the University of California-Davis, the Scottsdale Center for the Performi.