Opera doesn't get much timelier or more topical than Wednesday's opening performance of Beethoven's "Fidelio" at the San Francisco Opera. Here, as if plucked from that day's headlines, were the grim ...

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It's cellist Julian Lloyd Webber's birthday today. Jane Jones celebrates with his recording of Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme. Beethoven struggled to produce an appropriate overture for ...

NCH, Dublin Beethoven – Fidelio Overture. Mozart – Piano Concerto in C minor K491. Brahms – Symphony No 2. Some of the players in the horn section of the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra were ...

Unpleasant feelings of confinement and claustrophobia hit you when the curtain rises after Beethoven’s disconcertingly jolly overture; one small room is visible on stage, framed by black curtains. The ...