Fidelio Op.72 (Vocal Score)

Beethoven Fidelio Op.72 (Vocal Score)

Revised on the basis of the sources by Helga Lühning and Robert Didion, in co-operation with the Beethoven-Haus, Bonn and G Henle, Munich

Full score and performance material available for hire (BA9011-72)

This vocal score of Beethoven’s Fidelio is based on the scholarly-critical edition of the full score from the Beethoven Complete Edition.

It is the first time that all the major sources have been used.  The opera’s extremely long gestation and complex genesis, with its three versions between 1804 and 1814 and its four overtures, give some indication of the huge amount of editorial work required for this edition.

The vocal score is accompanied by a complete historical-critical edition of the performance material. 

With this publication another towering masterpiece has been purged of nineteenth-century editorial emendations, with some surprising results.