Beethoven’s ‘Fidelio’ wraps season’s Met screenings – JH News&Guide

Sometimes love, loyalty and goodness do triumph, even in the opera world.

The Grand Teton Music Festival will screen the Metropolitan Opera’s “Live in HD” production of “Fidelio,” Beethoven’s only opera, at 3 p.m. Sunday in the Center for the Arts.

With Finnish conductor Susanna Mälkki leading the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, the luminous and noble Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen sings the role of Leonore, who disguises herself as a young man, Fidelio, to get a job at the bastille. There, her husband, Florestan (David Butt Philip), is being held as a political prisoner, starving to death by command of the craven Don Pizarro (Tomasz Konieczny).

While undercover, Leonore unintentionally attracts the eye of Marzelline (Ying Fang), the daughter of prison warden Rocco (the profound René Pape), leading to tension with Rocco’s assistant Jaquino (Magnus Dietrich), who has been courting Marzelline.

As a side note, Davidsen was pregnant with twins during her “Fidelio” run in March, her last performances before taking the rest of the season off. She is set to return to the Met for next year’s production of Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde.”

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