Released on: 2015-10-02
Giordano Andrea Chenier
âKaufmann is performing the title role for the first time, and itâs hard to imagine him bettered. His striking looks make him very much the Romantic and romanticised outsider of Giordanoâs vision. His voice, with its dark, liquid tone, soars through the music with refined ease and intensity: all those grand declarations of passion, whether political or erotic, hit home with terrific immediacy.â â The Guardian Presented in its Covent Garden premiere in January 2015, this staging â directed by David McVicar and conducted by the Royal Operaâs Music Director, Sir Antonio Pappano â shows a bloody tricolour daubed with the words âEven Plato banned poets from his Republicâ â written by Robespierre on the death warrant of the historical ChĂ©nier, a poet and journalist sent to the guillotine in 1794 for criticising Franceâs post-revolutionary government.
