High musical values in the COC’s Fidelio

The COC opened its 2023/24 season on Friday night with Matthew Ozawa’s production of Beethoven’s 1805 attack on corruption and tyranny; Fidelio.  Ozawa gives it a contemporary American setting with all the action playing out on a sort of multi-level rotating cage.  It’s pretty effective and efficient in allowing scenes to succeed each other quite seamlessly.

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