Description
‘Fidelio’, Ludwig van Beethoven’s only opera, takes as its subject a theme close to the composer’s heart: the defeat of tyranny through man’s innate desire for liberty. The libretto was fashioned by Joseph Sonnleithner after Jean Bouilly’s Leonore (1798) and revised by Leipzig-born playwright and poet Georg Friedrich Treitschke with Beethoven in 1814.
This is the Schirmer edition of the Vocal Score and contains an English translation by Theodore Baker and an essay by H.E. Krehbiel!
