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About Giordano, Umberto (1867-1948)

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Date and venueTitle
16-May-2013
Staatsoper
Andrea Chénier at the Wiener Staatsoper
Image credit: José Cura as Andrea Chénier © Wiener Staatsoper / Michael PöhnLove and death are the two basic ingredients of the standard opera plot, and the more tragedy involved from the first to the last, the more likely it is to spur composers to set it to magnificent music. Andrea Chénier is a textbook example of this although it is not anywhere near as popular as La traviata, Carmen or La bohème, and explicably so.
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6-Jan-2013
Lincoln Center: Avery Fisher Hall
Roberto Alagna's Andrea Chénier fails to take off at the Lincoln Center
Image credit: ristin Lewis, Roberto Alagna and the Opera Orchestra of New York perform Andrea Chenier © Stephanie BergerYesterday I went to see a convoluted story about French revolutionaries, as belted out at top volume to serviceable but hardly creative ballads. No, I didn’t go to the Les misérables movie. I went to see Roberto Alagna in Opera Orchestra of New York’s concert presentation of Umberto Giordano’s Andrea Chénier.
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