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Andrea Chénier : [Royal Opera House production] / by Umberto Giordano ; libretto by Luigi Illica ; a National Video Corporation production.
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Giordano, Umberto, 1867-1948, composer.
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Standardized Title:
- Andrea Chénier
- Language:
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Operas.
- Genre:
- Filmed performances.
- Operas.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (116 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 Umberto Giordano's passionate and most successful opera. Placido Domingo stars in the title role as the idealistic poet of the French Revolution, and Maddalena, the object of Chénier's adoration, is portrayed by the Bulgarian soprano Anna Tomowa-Sintow. 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 Chénier in his cell and they go to the guillotine together. Gérard, torn between political and amorous loyalties, is the Italian baritone Giorgio Zancanaro. "Triumphantly successful" The Sunday Times.
- Participant:
- Giorgio Zancanaro (Carlo Gerard), John Gibbs (Major Domo/Fouquier-Tinville), Anna Tomowa-Sintow (Maddalena di Coigny), Cynthia Buchan (Bersi), Patricia Johnson (Contessa di Coigny), Gordon Sandison (Fleville), Placido Domingo (Andrea Chenier), Alexander Oliver (Abbe), Rodney Macann (Mathieu), John Dobson (Incredible), Jonathan Summers (Roucher), Anny Schlem (Madelon), Roderick Earle (Dumas), Eric Garrett (Gaoler) ; the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House ; the Royal Opera Chorus ; Julius Rudel, conductor.
- Notes:
- Title from title screen (viewed March 18, 2022).
- Recorded Royal Opera House, London, England 1985.
- OCLC:
- 1309919559
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