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Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3 | Sakari Oramo and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
The Leonore Overture No. 3 by Ludwig van Beethoven features extreme dramatic intensification and contrasts and functions like a self-contained mini-opera. Here it is performed by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, under the baton of Sakari Oramo. The concert took place on December 8, 2010, at the Stockholm Concert Hall on the occasion of the 2010 Nobel Prize awards ceremony.
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) wrote only one opera. He twice rewrote the original version of 1804/05, with th