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Andrea Chénier is a verismo opera in four acts by the composer Umberto Giordano, set to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica. It is based loosely on the life of the French poet, André Chénier (1762-1794), who was executed during the French Revolution.
The torrential, sweeping lyricism ofGiordano's music raises a blazing hymn to fraternity, love and
liberation through death. Marcelo Alvarez returns to the Paris Opera in
one of the repertoire's finest tenor roles.
Daniel Oren
Conductor
Giancarlo Del Monaco
Stage Director
Carlo Centolavigna
Sets
Maria Filippi
Costumes
Wolfgang Von Zoubek
Lighting
Laurence Fanon
Choreographic movements
Patrick Marie Aubert
Chorus Master
Marcelo Alvarez Andrea Chénier Sergei Murzaev Carlo Gérard Micaela Carosi Maddalena di Coigny Varduhi Abrahamyan / Francesca Franci (3, 6 décembre) La Mulatta Bersi Stefania Toczyska La Contessa di Coigny Maria José Montiel Madelon André Heyboer Roucher Igor Gnidii Pietro Fléville Antoine Garcin Fouquier-Tinville David Bizic Il Sanculotto Mathieu Carlo Bosi Un Incredibile Bruno Lazzaretti L’Abate Ugo Rabec Schmidt Guillaumoine Dumas
Duration : 2:50 hours 6,9,12,15,18,21,24 December 2009
Paris Opera Orchestra and Chorus
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Synopsis
===Act I===
The servants of the Countess of Coigny are preparing for a ball. Among them is Gérard, who is filled with indignation at the sight of his aged father suffering as the result of long years of abusive labor for the aristocrats. When the guests have arrived, a typical eighteenth century court [[pastoral]] with the [[Greek chorus|chorus]], dressed as shepherds and shepherdesses, singing idealized rustic music and the [[ballet]] mimicking a rural love story in stately court fashion. Among the guests is the dashingly popular poet, Andrea Chénier. When the Countess asks him to improvise a poem he refuses initially; but when her beautiful daughter, Maddalena, pleads with him he consents. Maddalena flirtatiously suggests the subject “Love,” but he soon forgets this, and sings of the misery and suffering of the poor instead which leads to a tirade against those in power in church and state. With the exception of Maddalena, the ball's privileged guests are outraged by Chénier's idealistic social and human creed. Gérard appears leading a crowd of ragged men and women and they are summarily ordered to leave the castle. Outraged, Chénier follows them.
===Act II===
Chénier is now a revolutionary activist and a wanted man. He is advised to flee by his friend Roucher, who has acquired a passport he can use. Chénier, however, has fallen in love with Maddalena and refuses to leave without her. Coincidentally, Maddalena soon arrives having sneaked away from her family with the desire of joining the revolution. The lovers rejoice in each other's company briefly but are interrupted when they are discovered by Gérard, who is also infatuated with Maddalena. They fight over her with swords and Gérard is wounded. Believing he is dying, he warns Chénier to flee from the wrath of his revolutionary enemies, and asks him to save Maddalena also. When a mob arrives on the scene a few minutes later, Gérard tells them that his assailant is unknown to him.
===Act III===
Gérard has recovered and is presiding over a revolutionary tribunal. A spy announces Chénier’s arrest for having dared criticize the cruelty of the powerful revolutionary leader [[Robespierre]]. This is too good an opportunity to make away with a rival, and as he is about to put his signature to the fatal document, he laughingly asks himself, “An enemy of his country?” ... he knows well that is the standard charge against one’s personal enemies. Yet he hesitates for a moment recalling that it was Chénier’s inspired verse that first awakened his own patriotism . . . now to satisfy his passions he sacrifices a friend. The struggle of honor and desire is beautifully expressed in the music ... a bit of the Marseillaise is suggestively quoted by the orchestra. Finally desire triumphs and Gérard signs in a mood of cynicism.
Hurried before the tribunal, Chénier pleads for himself vehemently, saying that he, a soldier, fought for his country; if he must die, let him die fighting for it, not shamefully executed. Maddalena, whose mother has meanwhile perished, also appears. She offers to give herself to Gérard to save Chénier’s life. Gérard then pleads for the poet; but it is now too late. The mob thirsts for blood.
===Act IV===
While confined in the gloomy St. Lazare prison, Chénier awaits his execution. He spends his time writing verses of poetry which express his faith in truth and beauty. Meanwhile, Maddalena bribes her way into the prison. She is ushered in to see Chénier by Gérard. The lovers have a brief tender moment before making one more failed appeal to Robespierre for a pardon. At dawn, Chénier is due to be beheaded. Unable to live without her love, Maddalena takes the place of a condemned woman and is guillotined with her lover
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