Opera in two acts
in German language
Text: Georg Friedrich Treitschke & Stephan von Breuning & Joseph Sonnleithner 
after J. N. Bouilly

Musical direction: Franz Welser-Möst
Production: Nikolaus Habjan

Premiere: December 16, 2025

As Florestan wanted to expose Don Pizarro's brutal and lawless despotism, the latter had imprisoned him in a state prison run by him out of revenge, where Florestan was forced to vegetate under inhumane conditions. In order to free him, his wife Leonore, disguised as a man under the name Fidelio, hires herself out as a jailer. And Leonore actually manages to prevent the planned murder of her husband by Pizarro at the last moment. And so the just minister, who arrives at the prison for inspection purposes, is able to set his friend Florestan and all the other political prisoners free again.