An introduction to Andrea Chénier (The Royal Opera)
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- čas přidán 28. 01. 2015
- The cast and creative team of Andrea Chénier including Jonas Kaufmann, Eva-Maria Westbroek and Antonio Pappano introduce Giordano's passionate opera about the French revolution. Find out more at www.roh.org.uk/productions/and...
The premiere of Andrea Chénier at La Scala, Milan, on 28 March 1896 propelled the young Umberto Giordano to the front rank of the giovane scuola (an up-and-coming group of young Italian composers that included Puccini and Mascagni). The opera exemplifies the verismo style that dominated Italian opera of the period - nowhere more so than in Giordano's skilful interpolation of different musical styles to provide local colour, from the aristocratic Gavotte of Act I to the Marseillaise in Act IV. The libretto by Luigi Illica (Puccini’s collaborator for Manon Lescaut, La bohème, Tosca and Madama Butterfly) was inspired by the real-life Romantic poet André Chénier, who was guillotined just three days before Robespierre's execution.
Andrea Chénier has become celebrated for the lyrical music it offers the tenor who takes the leading role, with the off-the-cuff Improvviso of Act I and his final aria 'Come un bel dì di maggio' particular highlights. But there are thrilling moments for the whole cast, including Maddalena's ardent aria 'La mamma morta', Gérard’s 'Nemico della patria!’ and a host of dramatic duets and characterful ensembles. David McVicar (whose productions for The Royal Opera include Le nozze di Figaro, Faust and Die Zauberflöte) directs The Royal Opera's new production, moving from the opulence of pre-Revolutionary France to the horrors of the Reign of Terror. - Zábava
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I just saw it and i have to admit that i was really moved and shed a tear or two in the end. Highlights for me were the duet between Chenier and Maddalena when they encounter each other in Act 2, Chenier's last conversation with his friend, the old woman's solo (whose name i can't recall), everything with Zeljko Lucic from the 3rd act onwards and the final duet. I've only seen maybe 4 or 5 complete operas in my life and only heard snippets of this one, but Andrea Chénier really did strike me as one of the most beautifully written pieces of music i have ever heard. And the story and dialogue are simple genius. Bravo :))
Gerard is terrific--great singing plus wonderful portrayal of the torn relationship with Maddalena.
Did see and it was a fabulous production and cast.
It looks to me, that this production, staging, cast and music directing are outstanding! Wish to be in London soon to see this! Wonderful Kaufmann :-)
Beautiful Innocent Person
The opera I would advise anybody to see who has never been to the opera before.
Where did Denyce Graves pop up from all of a sudden?
+Acacia Bloom She has a really nice sound.
Believe it or not Denyce Graves was Bersi
People toyed with Rousseau. Sort of like "Werther". From MY point of view: 'revolution' is easily fanned by envy and other realities. BUT 'inside' Versailles there wealths of achievement in the arts, diplomacy, and economics. There was NOT slavery. Money was dispersed to create those very visible environs. THAT seems the responsible conduct of 'State'. Then there's the postscript of outside influences . . . 'that' is probably what we're seeing here.
To Andre Newcomb: I regard the French Revolution as one of the three greatest catastrophes to befall the world in the past three centuries, together with the First World War and the Holocaust; but to deny the existence of slavery in this era is, not to mince words, obscene. There was no slavery in France itself; but the Caribbean sugar islands, which France and Great Britain divided between themselves, were the worst places on Earth in which to be a slave. The principal French colony was Saint Domingue, probably the richest European colony in the world next to India. It comprised the modern countries of Haiti and the Dominican Republic.; it had 500,000 slaves, and only 25,000 whites and 25,000 free people of color. The savagery of this slave system (and on the other French sugar islands, such as Martinique and Guadeloupe) was based on cruelties that almost beggar description; but it led to gigantic profits for the mother country. Even the Revolution was not enough to break the stranglehold of King Sugar on France's colonial holdings. Although Haiti became independent in 1804, slavery was not abolished in the rest of the French empire until 1848.