Fidelio

Directed by Joachim Hess

With Anja Silja, Richard Cassilly, Theo Adam, Lucia Popp and Ernst Wiemann

In the late 1960s Rolf Liebermann, the legendary intendant of the Hamburg State Opera, had the visionary idea of presenting a number of operas in filmed versions, among the first ever done in color, to be shown on German television. This is the historic recording of a 1968 production by the Hamburg State Opera.