A Co-production of NCPA, Royal Opera House & San Francisco Opera - Andrea Chenier

Published on May 3, 2015

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Genre: NCPA

Dates: May 28-31, 2015

Prices: 100, 280, 380, 550, 600, 680, 880

Features: Andrea Chénier is a verismo opera in four acts by the composer Umberto Giordano. From May 28th-31st, A Co-production of NCPA, Royal Opera House & San Francisco Opera - Andrea Chenier will stage in NCPA opera house.

BRIEF INTRODUCTION

Composer: Umberto Giordano
Libretto: Luigi Illica
Conductor: Lü Jia
Director: David McVicar
Choreography: Andrew George
Orchestra: China NCPA Orchestra
Chorus: NCPA Chorus

Andrea Chénier is a verismo opera in four acts by the composer Umberto Giordano, set to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica. It is based loosely on the life of the French poet, André Chénier (1762-1794), who was executed during the French Revolution. On March 28, 1896, Andrea Chénier was premiered at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan. It remains popular with audiences, though it is now less frequently performed than it was during the first half of the 20th Century. One reason that the opera has stayed in the repertoire is due to the magnificent lyric-dramatic music provided by Giordano for the tenor lead, which gives a talented singer many opportunities to demonstrate his histrionic skill and flaunt his voice.

Director: David McVicar

Scottish director David McVicar was born in Glasgow in 1966. He studied acting at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and discovered directing there. He is now acclaimed as one of the world's foremost opera directors, engagements includingGiulio Cesare, Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda and Il trovatore (Metropolitan Opera, New York), Les Troyens (La Scala, Milan), Don Giovanni (Opera Australia), La clemenza di Tito (Aix-en-Provence Festival), Don Carlo (Tokyo), Tristan und Isolde (Tokyo and Vienna), The Turn of the Screw, Medea, Alcina and Tosca(English National Opera), Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and Giulio Cesare in Egitto(Glyndebourne Festival), The Rake’s Progress, Madama Butterfly, La traviata andIdomeneo (Scottish Opera), Don Giovanni and Il re pastore (Opera North), Semele(Théatre Champs-Elysées), The Turn of The Screw and Macbeth (Mariinsky), Agrippina(Barcelona, La Monnaie, Brussels, Théatre Champs-Elysées and Frankfurt), Der Rosenkavalier (Scottish Opera, Opera North and ENO), Così fan tutte (Strasbourg and Scottish Opera), Billy Budd and Giulio Cesare in Egitto (Chicago), Les Contes d’Hoffmann (Salzburg Festival) and Der Ring Des Nibelungen (Strasbourg).

McVicar's awards include the 2011 Grand Prix de la Musique du Syndicat de la Critique for his Strasbourg production of the Ring cycle. In 2012 he received a knighthood and was made a Chevalier de l'ordre des arts et des lettres.