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BEETHOVEN 250 ‘Fidelio’—a round table Opera and the French Revolution Bouilly: Leonore’s first storyteller Christa Ludwig on Leonore The death penalty in opera

Alex Ross’s ‘Wagnerism’ considered For the record: Pekka Kuusisto Dickens’s forgotten libretto Rosa Feola in profile