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Andrea Chénier : [Teatro alla Scala production] / music by Umberto Giordano ; libretto by Luigi Illica ; produced by Lamberto Puggelli.
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Giordano, Umberto, 1867-1948, composer.
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Standardized Title:
- Andrea Chénier
- Language:
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Operas.
- Genre:
- Televised performances.
- Operas.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (129 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin, Berlin State : C Major Entertainment, 1985.
- Language Note:
- Sung in Italian.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- Set in Paris immediately before and during the French Revolution, Andrea Chénier is Giordano's passionate and most successful opera. José Carreras stars in the title role as the idealistic poet of the French Revolution, and Maddalena, the object of Chénier's adoration, is portrayed by Hungarian soprano Eva Marton. A servant-turned-revolutionary, Gérard, also loves Maddalena, and when he is elevated to the revolutionary court, he wreaks his revenge against Chénier who is condemned to death - Maddalena joins him in his cell and they go to the guillotine together. Gérard, torn between political and amorous loyalties, is the Italian baritone Piero Cappuccilli.
- Participant:
- José Carreras (Andrea Chénier), Eva Marton (Maddalena di Coigny), Piero Cappuccilli (Carlo Gérard), Silvana Mazzieri (Bersi), Nella Verri (Contessa di Coigny), Franco Federici (Roucher), Silvestro Sammaritano (Mathieu) ; other soloists ; Orchestra and Chorus of la Scala, Milan ; Riccardo Chailly, conductor.
- Notes:
- Title from title screen (viewed March 18, 2022).
- Recorded Teatro alla Scala 1985.
- OCLC:
- 1309919637
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