Andrea Chénier (Concert performance)

«What a savoring of each and every syllable, what an interrogation of phrases for color, nuance, and dramatic motivation.» When soprano Anja Harteros gave her role debut as Maddalena di Coigny in Munich in 2017, audiences and critics alike hailed her performance. «Opernwelt» magazine named her Singer of the Year. After successful turns as Maddalena in Vienna and Berlin, Anja Harteros can be heard at the Opernhaus Zürich in Umberto Giordano’s Andrea Chénier. In a series of concert performances under the musical direction of Marco Armiliato, Harteros sings alongside internationally renowned tenor Yonghoon Lee. At the center of this gripping revolutionary drama is the historical figure of the young poet Andrea Chénier, who fell under the guillotine just three days before Robespierre's execution in 1794. Chénier is an ardent advocate of revolutionary ideals at the start, but as the plot unfolds, his love for the persecuted aristocrat Maddalena di Coigny brings him under the suspicion of the new rulers. The mixture of human tragedy and political historical thriller with a lethal outcome became Umberto Giordano’s greatest success. The Italian verismo composer virtuously captures the atmosphere of the French Revolution with the help of a composed babble of voices and with quotations from hymns such as the Marseillaise and the Carmagnole.

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