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Andrea Chénier (1985)

ALL 05/01/1985 (it) Music 107 Min
  • Release
    05/01/1985
  • Production
    NVC Arts
  • Rotten tomato
    75%
  • Original title
    Andrea Chénier
  • Original language
    it
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

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

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  1. Plácido Domingo

    Andrea Chénier

  2. Anna Tomowa-Sintow

    Maddalena di Coigny

  3. Giorgio Zancanaro

    Carlo Gérard

  4. Jonathan Summers

    Roucher

  5. Cynthia Buchan

    Bersi

  6. John Dobson

    Incredible

  7. Roderick Earle

    Dumas

  8. Eric Garrett

    Gaoler

  9. John Gibbs

    Major Domo

  10. Patricia Johnson

    Contessa di Coigny

  11. Rodney Macann

    Mathieu

  12. Alexander Oliver

    Abbé

  13. Gordon Sandison

    Fléville

  14. Anny Schlemm

    Madelon

  15. Julius Rudel

    Conductor

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Casts : 15 , Crews : 5

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Andrea Chénier (1985) 107 Min

ALL 05/01/1985 (it)
Music
  • Release 05/01/1985
  • Production
    NVC Arts
  • Original title Andrea Chénier
  • it
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

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

  1. Lamberto Puggelli, Humphrey Burton

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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