Summary: "Fidelio - Act 2" Beethoven wrote and premiered his only opera, Fidelio on November 20th, 1805, in Vienna at the Theater an der Wien. Fidelio takes place in Seville, Spain during the 18th Century. Florestan is a political prisoner in the hands of Governor Don Pizarro. Leonore, Florestan’s wife, wants to free her husband on her own. She dresses up as a man and gets hired under the name Fidelio by the prison ward Rocco. Rocco’s daughter Marzelline falls in love with Fidelio. Details at our archive page @ https://archive.org/details/Fnao-Fidelioklemperer1962 [First time on our podcasting channel]
