Giordano Andrea Chénier Kaufmann Wetsbroek Lucic Pappano

Giordano Andrea Chénier Kaufmann Wetsbroek Lucic Pappano Share this vídeo - Thirty years after its last production in Covent Garden, the opera “Andrea Chenier”, by the Italian Umberto Giordano, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica, makes a triumphant return to the Royal Opera House in London. Giordano’s opera is based on the life of the French romantic poet André Chénier (1762-1794), who was guillotined during the French Revolution, three days before Robespierre’s execution. On the pulpit, the always passionate and captivating Antonio Pappano, for whom this masterpiece of Verismo is an unusual exercise in leadership for an orchestra. The English maestro spoke of the enthusiasm that this experience awakens in his orchestra, “Thanks to the exaltation, elevation and dramatic intelligence of this composer, his fine perception of the work of an orchestra…”. Highlighting the “magnificent, majestic, impressive” nature