Editing Fidelio (section)

==Roles==
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|+{{sronly|Roles, voice types, premiere casts of three versions}}
!Role
![[Voice type]]<ref>[http://www.opera-guide.ch/opera.php?uilang=en&id=29 Opera Guide], synopsis, libretto, highlights.</ref>
!Premiere cast,<br />First version: 3 acts<ref name=TITLE /><br />20 November 1805<br />[[Conducting|Conductor]]: [[Ignaz von Seyfried]]
!Premiere cast,<br />Second version: 2 acts<ref name=TITLE>{{harvnb|Johnson|1998|p=183}}: "The title ''Leonore'' is now commonly used to designate the first two versions of the opera"</ref><br />29 March 1806<br />Conductor: Ignaz von Seyfried<ref>{{harvnb|Johnson|1998|p=183}}: The only other performance of this version was on 10 April 1806.</ref>
!Premiere cast,<br />Final version: 2 acts<br />23 May 1814<br />Conductor: [[Michael Umlauf]]
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|Florestan, ''a prisoner''
|[[tenor]]
|[[Carl Demmer]]
|[[Joseph August Röckel]]
|[[Julius Radichi]]
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|Leonore, ''his wife, disguised as a man under the alias'' Fidelio
|[[soprano]]
|colspan="3" align=center|[[Anna Milder]]
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|Rocco, ''gaoler'' (guard)
|[[bass (voice type)|bass]]
|colspan="2" align=center|[[Joseph Rothe]]
|[[Carl Weinmüller]]
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|Marzelline, ''his daughter''
|[[soprano]]
|colspan="2" align=center|[[Louise Müller]]
|[[Anna Bondra]]
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|Jaquino, ''assistant to Rocco''
|[[tenor]]
|colspan="2" align=center|[[Joseph Caché]]
|[[Joseph Frühwald]]
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|Don Pizarro, ''governor of the prison''
|[[baritone]]
|colspan="2" align=center|[[Sebastian Mayer]]
|[[Johann Michael Vogl]]
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|Don Fernando, ''King's minister''
|[[baritone]]
|colspan="2" align=center|[[Johann Michael Weinkopf]]
|[[Ignaz Saal]]
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|Two prisoners
|[[tenor]] and [[bass (voice type)|bass]]
|colspan="3" align=center|Unknown
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| colspan="5"|''Soldiers, prisoners, townspeople''
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