Credits:

John Eliot Gardiner,Ludwig Van Beethoven,The Monteverdi Choir

Description:

[Beethoven 100 premium] 25 titles for the first release. Green color label coated. 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth. Leonore", Beethoven's only opera, the first draft of "Fidelio", is an opera in three acts. Gardiner, who has produced works such as Mozart's "The Magic Flute" that bring fresh impressions through new interpretations and techniques of the works, has recorded Beethoven's "Leonore" in light of it from various angles. [Don Fernando (Minister): Alastair Miles (Bass), Don Pizzaro (Warden): Matthew Best (Bass Baritone), Florestan (Prisoner): Kim Begley (Tenor), Leonore (his wife, who calls herself Fidelio): Hilevi Martinpelto ( soprano), Rocco (the prison guard): Franz Havrata (bass), Marzelline (Rocco's daughter): Cristiane Elze (soprano), Yaquino (the gate guard): Michael Schade (tenor), 1st prisoner: Rob Burt (tenor), 2nd prisoner: Colin Campbell (bass), Composition : John Eliot Gardiner, Narrator: Christoph Banzer, Monteverdi Choir, Orchestre Revolusionnel et Romantique, Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner, Recorded: Watford, September 1996