Royal Opera House: Andrea Chernier
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“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.
Status: Released
Released Date: 2015-10-02
Runtime: 123 mins
Director: David McVicar
Writer: Luigi Illica
Spoken language: Italiano
Genres: Music
Original title: Royal Opera House: Andrea Chernier
Production Companies: Royal Opera House, Warner Music Group
Production Countries: United Kingdom
Cast
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
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