The Comeback
100 Nights of Hero
Ella McCay
Dead Man's Wire
Wicked: For Good
Your Friends & Neighbors
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Avatar: Fire and Ash
Young Sherlock
Predator: Badlands
The Housemaid
Ella McCay
Stranger Things
Andrea Chénier
Audience Score
1 hr 47 minMusic
Live from ROH 1985. Giordano's Andrea Chenier is one of the greatest of verismo operas, full of heart-stopping big tunes and powerful emotional situations. If it is not as well-known as it should be, it is because in summary it sounds a little too like Puccini's Tosca: there is a tussle between political opponents over a woman, an attempt to save a condemned man, a tenor aria about writing poetry on the eve of execution. The difference is that Gerard (Giorgio Zancanaro) is not a villain like Scarpia, he is an idealist whom the French Revolution has betrayed as much as it has his rival the poet Chenier (Placido Domingo). His temptation to abuse his power to seduce the virtuous Maddalena (Anna Tomowa-Sintow) is a momentary one, though its consequences are terrible. There is a streak of post-Wagnerian decadence in much of this--Maddalena is at least as much in love with death as she is with Chenier, and the final love duet has a deeply sinister aspect. -- From Amazon.co.uk
WriterLuigi Illica
