"Fidelio" in Italian

--- by Luigi Speranza
------- for "Gli Operai"

----- AS USUAL, INVOLVED in an 'educational' task with my club. This time, to accompany a local production of Beethoven's opera, I shall be working on the Italian-metrical version of Florestan's aria (Act II, Scene i). I always loved Beethoven and find that he managed to include Donizetti's 'marcia' from the (lost) opera "Ira d'Achille" in one of his many orchestral works fascinating.

Anway, will report back -- and any commentary on the trials and tribulations of "Fidelio", especially as it made it into the mandatory Italian repertoire of the Covent Garden (when it was the "Royal Italian Opera") welcome.