20 Sep 2010
Fidelio, Welsh National Opera/ In the Penal Colony, Music Theatre Wales
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/opera/8014259/Fidelio-Welsh-National-Opera-In-the-Penal-Colony-Music-Theatre-Wales-review.html
https://boydellandbrewer.com/bizet-s-i-carmen-i-uncovered.html
https://boydellandbrewer.com/the-operas-of-sergei-prokofiev.html
https://www.wexfordopera.com/media/news/incoming-artistic-director-rosetta-cucchi-announces-her-2020-programme
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo43988096.html
http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=809636
https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/music/twentieth-century-and-contemporary-music/prokofievs-soviet-operas?format=HB
https://boydellandbrewer.com/the-operas-of-benjamin-britten.html
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-opera-singers-acting-toolkit-9781350006454/
https://h-france.net/vol18reviews/vol18no52palidda.pdf
http://www.operatoday.com/content/2018/08/glyndebourne_an.php
A musical challenge to our view of the past
https://vimeo.com/operarara/how-to-rescue-an-opera
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/opera/8014259/Fidelio-Welsh-National-Opera-In-the-Penal-Colony-Music-Theatre-Wales-review.html
By Rupert Christiansen [The Telegraph, 20 September 2010]
Published: 5:56PM BST 20 Sep 2010
Welsh National Opera has imported from Bordeaux a two-dimensional staging of Beethoven’s Fidelio, directed by Giuseppe Frigeni. It eliminates virtually all the dialogue and strips the action to a skeleton, avoiding any pretence of realism. The first act takes place against the background of one wall of a salon of Beethoven’s era and two walls of a high barred cage; the latter forms the only scenery for the second act.