Fidelio

About the show

Leonore disguises herself as a young prison guard named Fidelio to find her husband Florestan, whom Governor Pizarro has secretly imprisoned. She gains the trust of the jailer Rocco and learns that Pizarro plans to murder Florestan before an investigating minister arrives. Leonore accompanies Rocco to Florestan’s dungeon and steps between Pizarro and her husband, threatening Pizarro with a pistol. The minister arrives, Pizarro is taken away, and Florestan is freed.