Royal Opera House: Andrea Chernier

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Royal Opera House: Andrea Chernier

Giordano's Andrea Chernier at the Royal Opera House

“Kaufmann is performing the title role for the first time, and it’s hard to imagine him bettered. His striking looks make him very much the Romantic and romanticised outsider of Giordano’s vision. His voice, with its dark, liquid tone, soars through the music with refined ease and intensity: all those grand declarations of passion, whether political or erotic, hit home with terrific immediacy.” – The Guardian Presented in its Covent Garden premiere in January 2015, this staging – directed by David McVicar and conducted by the Royal Opera’s Music Director, Sir Antonio Pappano – shows a bloody tricolour daubed with the words “Even Plato banned poets from his Republic” – written by Robespierre on the death warrant of the historical Chénier, a poet and journalist sent to the guillotine in 1794 for criticising France’s post-revolutionary government.

Original Title

Giordano Andrea Chenier

Release Date

2015-10-02

Year

2015

Duration

2h 3m

Status

Released

Score

10.00

Genres

#opera

Cast

Jonas Kaufmann

Jonas Kaufmann

Andrea Chenier

Eva-Maria Westbroek

Eva-Maria Westbroek

Maddalena di Coigny

Željko Lučić

Željko Lučić

Carlo Gerard

Denyce Graves

Denyce Graves

Bersi

Rosalind Plowright

Rosalind Plowright

Contessa di Coigny

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Peter Coleman-Wright

Pietro Fleville

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Roland Wood

Roucher

Elena Zilio

Elena Zilio

Madelon

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Carlo Bosi

The Incredible

Adrian Clarke

Adrian Clarke

Mathieu