BBC Proms - 2009 - Prom 50: Fidelio - Part 2

From the Royal Albert Hall, London. Presented by Christopher Cook. Daniel Barenboim conducts his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra in the conclusion of a German version of Beethoven's only opera Fidelio, featuring an English narration devised by the co-founder of the orchestra - scholar and historian Edward Said. A work first performed in 1805, Fidelio is an impassioned defence of freedom and justice, and a celebration of the power of love as its heroine, Leonore, rescues her falsely incarcerated husband from imprisonment and execution. Beethoven: Fidelio (Part 2) - concert performance; sung in German, with English narration by Edward Said Leonore/narrator ...... Waltraud Meier (mezzo-soprano) Florestan ...... Simon O'Neill (tenor) Don Pizarro ...... Gerd Grochowski (bass-baritone) Rocco ...... John Tomlinson (bass) Marzelline ...... Adriana Kucerova (soprano) Jacquino ...... Stephen Rugamer Don Fernando ...... Viktor Rud BBC Singers Geoffrey Mitchell Choir West-Eastern Divan Orchestra Daniel Barenboim (conductor).