Andrea Chénier (The Royal Opera) ROH Live

11 JUNE 2024

7.15pm – 10.30pm

Live Broadcast: Part of our 2023/24 Live Arts Series, streamed simultaneously from the Royal Opera House to our cinema screen and in full surround sound.

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 power balance between Chénier, his beloved Maddalena, and Gérard, the man who could destroy him… Jonas Kaufmann headlines David McVicar’s spectacular staging, under the baton of long- time collaborator Antonio Pappano – who conducts Giordano’s epic historical drama of revolution and forbidden love in his last production as Music Director of The Royal Opera.

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House – conducted by Antonio Pappano

Music: Umberto Giordano

Directors: David McVicar

Cast: Andrea Chénier (Jonas Kaufmann), Maddalena Di Coigny (Sondra Radvanovsky), Carlo Gérard (Carlos Álvarez), Bersi (Katia Ledoux), The Incredibile (Alexander Kravets), Roucher (Ashley Riches), Contessa Di Coigny (Rosalind Plowright), Pietro Fléville (William Dazeley), The Abbé (Aled Hall), Madelon (Elena Zilio), Major-Domo (Simon Thorpe), Mathieu (James Cleverton), Fouquier-Tinville (Eddie Wade), Dumas (Jamie Woollard), Schmidt (Jeremy White)

Language: Sung in Italian with English subtitles