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Thanks to a surprise Deutsche Bahn strike, I stayed an extra night in Hamburg and caught a musically fine, dramatically inane Fidelio at the Staatsoper. The evening reminded me how much I love Beethoven’s opera, so Chris’s Cache wraps up November with Régine Crespin’s Chicago Leonore; two rare Met Fidelios headed by Christa Ludwig and Hildegard Behrens; and a concert performance with Birgit Nilsson led by current biopic subject Leonard Bernstein (Maestro sucks, by the way), plus a final twist: excerpts of Carol Vaness in Leonore.
One of the pandemic’s most unfortunate Met cancellations was the Fidelio revival scheduled to mark Beethoven’s 250thbirthday in 2020. It was to have starred Lise Davidsen conducted by Yannick Nézét-Sequin. Let’s hope we get to hear her in the role before she heads off to Walhalla permanently.
Ludwig’s sole US Leonore (a few years after she’d otherwise given up the role) occurred when Rudolf Bing reached out after Birgit Nilsson canceled a sold-out Elektra. As Ludwig had eight days off between the infamous premiere of the new Werther and her second Massenet performance, she consented to add another role to her remarkably wide-ranging season that also included Kundry, Amneris, and the Dyer’s Wife.
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