It’s all in the arm, clearly. The Royal Opera‘s music director only has to wave a stick at a potboiler like Andrea Chénier and it’s practically a masterpiece. Antonio Pappano‘s talent is a rare gift: ...

The Metropolitan Opera will revive Umberto Giordano ’s Andrea Chénier for six performances beginning November 24, 2025, featuring soprano Sonya Yoncheva and tenor Piotr Beczała in their Met role ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Umberto Giordano’s tragedy of love undone by the French Revolution has returned, but as an evening of coarse music making. By Corinna da ...

The Met: Live in HD presents “Andrea Chénier,” starring tenor Piotr Beczała in the title role of the virtuous poet who falls victim to the intrigue and violence of the French Revolution; soprano Sonya ...

For more than nine decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...

As well as improving the quality of the performers they engage, as I mentioned in connection with Eugene Onegin, Opera Holland Park has also rejuvenated its repertoire in the last few years to include ...

At a glittering party in 18th-century Paris, the poet Andréa Chenier delivers an impassioned denunciation of Louis XVI. Five years later, the Revolution has given way to the Terror, transforming the ...

It’s not often that you see a director look as nervous as David McVicar did on taking his bow this evening, but there was no need, since his new production of Giordano’s star-tenor slice of verismo ...