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    Beethoven’s Fidelio is the opera of freedom: ‘Zur Freiheit, zur Freiheit!’ Florestan sings in his dungeon; ‘O Freiheit!’, the prisoners sing during their short walk ‘in free air’.[1] And its topic is not freedom in general, as some abstract, idealistic notion, but freedom’s practical relation to the state, to power and the abuse of power, to law and unlawfulness, to prison, to torture, to murder. Indeed, prison is not only the setting of the story, but also its content, its very fabric and experience. This, if anything, justifies Beethoven’s only opera – first performed in Vienna in 1805, and revised in 1806 and 1814, thanks to three consecutive librettists, Joseph Sonnleithner, Stephan von Breuning and Georg Treitschke – being called a political opera.

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