| Tatulescu, Selig, Myllys, Koch, Kampe, Kaufmann |
Director ..... Calixto Bieito
Conductor ..... Daniele Gatti
Set ..... Rebecca Ringst
Chorus ..... Sören Eckhoff
Don Fernando ..... Steven Humes
Don Pizarro ..... Wolfgang Koch
Florestan ..... Jonas Kaufmann
Leonore ..... Anja Kampe
Rocco ..... Franz-Josef Selig
Marzelline ..... Laura Tatulescu
Jaquino ..... Jussi Myllys
1. Gefangener ..... Dean Power
2. Gefangener ..... Tareq Nazmi
The Bavarian State Orchestra
The Chorus of the Bavarian State Opera
His chief characteristic is his fear of thinking for himself
Czeslaw Milosz (about the intellectual's relationship to totalitarianism)