BEETHOVEN OPERA, HELD UP
They did right by Beethoven at the S.F. Opera, staging his only (and foresightedly heroic) opera “Fidelio” nearly a year after his 250st birthday, with Covid19 acting as the black-hat hold-up man at the War Memorial Opera House. If the performance was a bit spotty, no matter—the key word was revolutionary, his message of freedom and individuals bucking repression and suppression by corrupt authorities. And how revolutionary it was in 1805 to have a woman disguising herself as a man…