Tim Ashley 🏳️🌈The work we now know as Leonore - the first version of Beethoven's Fidelio - was first performed in Vienna #OTD in 1805.
This is the duet for Marzellina and Leonore, Um in der Ehe froh zu leben, that never made it into Beethoven's final score:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jlu9HVUVBQY
It's sung here by Helen Donath and Edda Moser, with the Dresden Staatskapelle conducted by Herbert Blomstedt.
