Fidelio

Seeing and hearing Beethoven’s only opera, Fidelio, at Lyric Opera of Chicago promises to be a supremely moving experience, Listening to the “Prisoners’ Chorus,” you’ll wonder if any other composer has so vividly communicated human beings’ longing for freedom and sunlight. No operatic heroine is more courageous than Leonore, who disguises herself as a young man in order to work in the prison, hoping to rescue her husband.