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Claus Guth s strikingly experimental new production of Beethoven s Fidelio drew fervent reactions at its premiere at the 2015 Salzburg Festival. On an elegantly Spartan set suggestive of Freud s salon of the unconscious the opera is reworked with amplified noises and ambient sounds substituting for the traditional dialogue and the inclusion of hand-signing doppelgangers who shadow some of the lead characters. Jonas Kaufmann s gorgeously sung Florestan (Financial Times) and Leonora triumphantly sung by Adrianne Pieczonka (The Guardian/Observer) masterfully execute Guth s conceptual exploration of the mind s ability to self-impose its own prison. The opera was conducted by Maestro Franz Wesler-Möst with the Vienna Philharmonic orchestra 1. Beethoven: Fidelio; Overture Welser-Möst, Franz 2. Beethoven: Fidelio; Act I; Jetzt, Schätzchen, jetzt sind wir allein 3. Beethoven: Fidelio; Act I; O wär ich schon mit dir vereint 4. Beethoven: Fidelio; Act I; Mir ist so wunderbar 5. Beethoven: Fidelio; Act I; Hat man nicht auch Gold beineben 6. Beethoven: Fidelio; Act I; Gut, Söhnchen, gut 7. Beethoven: Fidelio; Act I; March 8. Beethoven: Fidelio; Act I; Ha, welch ein Augenblick! 9. Beethoven: Fidelio; Act I; Jetzt, Alter, jetzt hat es Eile 10. Beethoven: Fidelio; Act I; Abscheulicher! Wo eilst du hin? 11. Beethoven: Fidelio; Act I; O welche Lust 12. Beethoven: Fidelio; Act I; Nun sprecht, wie ging's? 13. Beethoven: Fidelio; Act I; Ach, Vater, eilt! 14. Beethoven: Fidelio; Act I; Leb wohl, du warmes Sonnenlicht 15. Beethoven: Fidelio; Act II; Gott! Welch Dunkel hier! 16. Beethoven: Fidelio; Act II; In des Lebens Frühlingstagen 17. Beethoven: Fidelio; Act II; Nur hurtig fort, nur frisch gegraben 18. Beethoven: Fidelio; Act II; Euch werde Lohn in bessern Welten 19. Beethoven: Fidelio; Act II; Er sterbe! 20. Beethoven: Fidelio; Act II; O namenlose Freude! 21. Beethoven: Fidelio; Act II; Overture "Leonore III" 22. Beethoven: Fidelio; Act II; Heil sei dem Tag 23. Beethoven: Fidelio; Act II; Des besten Königs Wink und Wille 24. Beethoven: Fidelio; Act II; Wer ein holdes Weib errungen 25. Beethoven: Fidelio; Applause 26. Beethoven: Fidelio; Credits