https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmpJkIiFEGk 


 “If Napoleon had grasped Beethoven,” Egon Friedell concluded in his cultural history of the modern age, “Europe might have a different face today.”  As the philosopher Ernst Bloch says in his book The Principle of Hope, “Every future storming of the Bastille is intended in Fidelio.”  In his review of the London première in 1832, Thomas Love Peacock provided a rough outline of the feelings successively put forth in this opera as a sort of subliminal language from which ideas emerge as sounds.