Showing posts with label Andrea Chenier. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Andrea Chenier. Show all posts

Sunday, 4 March 2012

La mamma morta: Andrea Chenier

We have already looked at this famous aria from Umberto Giordano's 1896 opera Andrea Chenier (the same year as Puccini's La Boheme). The librettist of Chenier was Luigi Illica, who also worked on La Boheme (and Tosca and Madam Butterfly) in collaboration with Giuseppe Giacosa. Now let's look a bit more at the opera itself, some of the music, some new voices and a new style of opera.