Located in the hunt country of Virginia, about an hour from Washington, the 61-acre property, named "Fidelio" after Beethoven's opera, has a 12, 000-square-foot neoclassical villa with six bedrooms, five baths and two half-baths.

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The 2013-14 seasons starts in September with a new production of Beethoven's Fidelio masterminded by the Spanish director Calixto Bieito.

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