By EMILY SKEHAN
Music Director James Conlon opens L.A. Opera's season with Beethoven's “Fidelio,” a celebration of humanity's desire for freedom and justice. More than 200 years after its premiere, this drama of wrongful imprisonment and the triumph of true love remains as relevant as ever.
His wife Leonore, desperate to find him and willing to die if she must, adopts the disguise of a young man — Fidelio — and becomes the jailer's assistant, hoping to free her beloved husband.
“Fidelio” plays at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion weekends and Wednesdays starting this Saturday, Sept. 8 at 6 p.m. through Oct. 6.
For more information, call (213) 972-8001, or visit www.laopera.com.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on September 6, 2007. Read the original PDF.