CITV PRESENTS THE FIRST CAPITAL REGION PERFORMANCE OF BEETHOVEN’S FIDELIO TO OPEN 14TH SEASON

CITV presents Fidelio, Beethoven’s only opera, in concert at Kinderhook Reformed Church. The Broad Street Orchestra and Chorale will be joined by seven outstanding soloists. This will be the Capital Region’s first performance of Beethoven’s opera. Artistic Director David Smith will conduct, and Wheelock Whitney, Speaker, will guide the opera’s riveting narrative of a wife’s determined love for her husband and courageous actions to save his life, and more universally, Beethoven’s own passionate commitment to personal and political freedom. Composed at the beginning of the 19th century, the message of Fidelio has clear relevance at the beginning of the 21st.