Alexander Polzin directs Fidelio at Tiroler Festspiele Erl

On 27 December the celebrated artist and stage designer Alexander Polzin makes his long awaited debut as a stage director. Polzin was invited to direct Beethoven's 'freedom opera', Fidelio at the Tiroler Festpiele Erl by festival director Gustav Kuhn. 

Beethoven's only opera is an ode to freedom. To rescue her husband, a political prisoner, the noblewoman Leonore disguises herself as a man and works at the prison where she believes her husband is held. Ranging from breathtaking arias to one of the most beautiful choral tributes to freedom ever written, Beethoven's score is truly sublime, with an ever-building dramatic intensity that leaves the audience exhilarated.