Or, Conjugal Love.
Opera in three acts, translated freely from the French text by
JOSEPH SONNLEITHNER.
The music is by LUDWIG VON BEETHOVEN.

_Dramatis Personae_.

_Don Fernando_, Minister Herr Weinkoff.
_Don Pizarro_, Governor of a State Prison Herr Meier.
_Florestan_, prisoner Herr Demmer.
_Leonora_, his wife, under the name of _Fidelio_ Fräulein Milder.
_Rocco_, chief jailer Herr Rothe.
_Marcellina_, his daughter Fräulein Müller.
_Jaquino_, turnkey Herr Cache.
_Captain of the Guard_ Herr Meister.
_Prisoners, Guards, People_.

The action passes in a State prison in Spain, a few leagues from
Seville. The piece can be procured at the box-office for fifteen
kreutzers.

During this first season the opera was performed three times and then
withdrawn. Breuning reduced it to two acts, and two or three of the
musical numbers were sacrificed, and in this form it was played twice
at the Imperial Private Theatre and again withdrawn. On these
occasions it had been given under Beethoven's favorite title,
"Leonore." In 1814 Treitschke revised it, and it was produced at the
Kärnthnerthor Theatre, Vienna, May 23, of that year, as "Fidelio,"
which title it has ever since retained. Its first performance in Paris
was at the Théâtre Lyrique, May 5, 1860; in London, at the King's