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7.30PM, SATURDAY 8 MAY, AUCKLAND TOWN HALL<br />
The Trusts Community Foundation Opera in Concert<br />
FIDELIO<br />
BEETHOVEN’S<br />
Conductor Giordano Bellincampi<br />
Leonore Kirstin Sharpin<br />
Florestan Simon O’Neill<br />
Don Pizarro Phillip Rhodes<br />
Rocco Paul Whelan<br />
Marzelline Natasha Wilson<br />
Jaquino Oliver Sewell<br />
Don Fernando James Ioelu<br />
With the Freemasons<br />
New Zealand Opera Chorus<br />
Courage, liberty and justice –<br />
how far would you go for love?<br />
The liberal nobleman Florestan has<br />
disappeared. The rumour is that he<br />
is dead. His wife Leonore refuses<br />
to give up on him and has tracked<br />
him down to a prison run by his old<br />
enemy, Don Pizarro. How can she<br />
save him? By getting inside the walls<br />
– disguised as a young man called<br />
Fidelio.<br />
Beethoven’s central belief was his<br />
faith in humanity. His only opera<br />
celebrates the power of love,<br />
personified by Leonore’s courage and<br />
self-sacrifice. And it celebrates the<br />
triumph of freedom over oppression,<br />
encapsulated in the unforgettable<br />
Prisoners’ Chorus, where the men<br />
emerge from darkness and chains<br />
into the light.<br />
Giordano Bellincampi conducts an<br />
all-star cast, led by New Zealand<br />
sensations Kirstin Sharpin and Simon<br />
O’Neill, in a work where the political<br />
and ethical concerns are as true and<br />
as urgent for us today as they were<br />
for Beethoven.<br />
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