This year the Beethoven Festival in Bonn featured the composer's only opera Fidelio for the first time since 2005. Conducted by Estonian-American Paavo Järvi, the performance in the city's Beethoven Hall was broadcast live to a rapt audience on Bonn's central market square.

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