Overview
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.
Cast
- Anja Silja as Leonore
- Richard Cassilly as Florestan
- Theo Adam as Pizarro
- Lucia Popp as Marcellina
- Ernst Wiemann as Rocco
- Erwin Wohlfahrt as Jaquino
- Hans Sotin as Don Fernando
- Kurt Marschner as Prisoner
- William Workman as Prisoner