Details

The poet Andrea Chenier and the servant Carlo Gerard both love the young aristocrat Maddalena. When Maddalena loses everything in the French Revolution, Chenier offers her protection, and so incites the envy of Gerard, now a powerful official. Sung in Italian with English surtitles.

Creatives/Company

Music: Umberto Giordano
Lyrics: Luigi Illica
Producer(s): Royal Opera, National Centre for the Performing Arts Beijing, San Francisco Opera
Conductor: Daniel Oren
Director(s): David McVicar, Andrew George (movement director)
Design: Robert Jones
Costume: Jenny Tiramani
Lighting: Adam Silverman