Fidelio gets booed in Berlin
NewsA new production of Beethoven’s opera by a rising local director David Hermann was loudly booed on Friday night.
Hermann apparerently had Leonore shoot one of the prisoners, and then forgets to open the dungeons in the finale. The jailer Rocco is dressed wierdly in the orange garb of a Guantanamo detainee.
Donald Runnicles conducted at the Deutsche Oper.
One member of the public said: ‘It was the first time in my life that I booed after an opera.’
photo: Bernd Uhlig/Deutsche Oper
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