Fidelio discography of "Leonore", the 1805 original three-act version of the two-act opera "Fidelio". This is a discography of "Leonore", the 1806 version of the two-act opera "Fidelio". Fidelio discography This is a partial discography of "Fidelio", a Singspiel in two acts by Ludwig van Beethoven. Beethoven had originally written a three-act version of the opera called "Leonore", first performed in 1805 and then re-staged with revisions in 1806. Despite the name change, the heroine is the title character in both cases. Leonore disguises herself as a boy, Fidelio, in order to find out what has happened to her husband, Florestan, who
Andromaque (opera) Andromaque (opera) Andromaque is an opera in three acts by the composer André Ernest Modeste Grétry. The French libretto is an adaptation of Jean Racine's play "Andromaque" by Louis-Guillaume Pitra (1735-1818). It was first performed on 6 June 1780 by the Académie Royale de Musique (Paris Opera) in the second Salle du Palais-Royal. It was the only opera Grétry wrote in the form of a "tragédie lyrique". Grétry was regarded as the leading composer of "opéra comique" of his time and "Andromaque" was his only tragic opera for the Académie Royale de Musique. During the 1770s, Christoph Willibald von Gluck