Giordano Andrea Chenier (2015)

“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.

Updated Jun 22 2017

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FACTS

Runtime: 123 mins Rating: 9.0

Cast

Rosalind Plowright

Contessa di Coigny

Denyce Graves

Bersi

Jonas Kaufmann

Andrea Chenier

Antonio Pappano

Conductor

Eva-Maria Westbroek

Maddalena di Coigny

Eddie Wade

Fouquier Tinville

Željko Lučić

Carlo Gerard

Peter Hoare

Abbe