Beethoven's only opera: a hymn to liberty.
180. Fidelio (Beethoven)
Category: Rescue opera
171. Lodoïska (Cherubini)
The first Romantic opera, and the foundation of the 19th century French school.
I will be your Virgil through the infernal regions and Purgatory to Paradise and the music of the spheres. Nothing Danted, so to speak.
