Pursuits
Silly Beethoven Gets Butchered by Opera Nut: Review
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Singers have become lab rats for directors.
That’s the impression given by Calixto Bieito’s amusingly awful new production of Beethoven’s “Fidelio” at English National Opera. He sets the piece in a vertical, neon-lit maze created from scaffolding and platforms. The singers wriggle themselves up and down the maze through gaps, just like mice.