Fidelio

Fidelio was a comic opera in three acts with a score by Ludwig Van Beethoven and a libretto by Josef Sonnleithner and Georges Friedrich Treitschke . It had its world premiere on 20 November 1805 in this form at the Theatre an der Wien in Vienna under the title of Léonor ou 1’Amour conjugal. After a booking in Prague, it was returned to Vienna on 20 March 1806 as Fidelio in two acts, and it was under this title that it had its Paris premiere at the Odéon in a French version by François-Joseph…