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SFO has proven this stark incompatibility once more. Many others have made this discovery time-and-time-again since 1955. The opera just does not fit the situation and cannot be adapted. GENERAL: Much of the problems with this opera presentation involved placing it in a Nazi Concentration Camp. If Beethoven could have seen it, he would be happy he stuck to music.

Someone in this production needed to learn something about WWII. It employs some good voices and orchestra performances, but is marred by amusing miscasting, continently errors, adaptation problems, and the warmest, fuzziest Nazis you will ever see. SUMMATION: This was not intended to be a comedy.