5th Symphony Concert

Ludwig van Beethoven's only opera, Fidelio, tells of a woman's courageous fight for freedom and justice: Leonore disguises herself as Fidelio in order to free her husband from the unjustly imprisoned dungeon. Her path to the story's happy ending is as arduous as Beethoven's compositional process. He revised the entire work four times, writing a separate overture for each new version. While the first three overtures incorporate musical material fr...