Release Date

02 Oct, 2015

Runtime

02:03: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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

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Actors

Jonas Kaufmann

Eva-Maria Westbroek

Željko Lučić

Denyce Graves

Rosalind Plowright

Peter Coleman-Wright

Roland Wood

Elena Zilio

Carlo Bosi

Adrian Clarke

Peter Hoare

Eddie Wade

Yuriy Yurchuck

Jeremy White

Antonio Pappano

Crew

Umberto Giordano

David McVicar

Luigi Illica