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Andrea Chenier
Librettist
Based On

loosely, the life of the French poet André Chénier, executed during the French Revolution

Company
San Francisco Opera Association
Location
San Francisco, CA
Venue
War Memorial Opera House
Season
2016-2017
Language
Italian

Creative/Crew

Conductor
Director
Set Designer(s)
Costume Designer(s)
Lighting Designer
Associate Lighting Designer
Chorus Director
Original Choreographer
Revival Choreographer
Assistant Conductor
Musical Preparation
Prompter
Supertitles
Assistant Director(s)
Stage Manager(s)
Dance Master
Fight Director
Assistant Stage Manager(s)
Costume Supervisor
Head of Wig and Makeup

Cast

Carlo Gérard
Majordomo
Old Gardener (Gérard's father)
Maddalena di Coigny
Contessa di Coigny
Pietro Fléville
Flando Fiorinelli
Andrea Chénier
Abbe
Shepherdess
Shepherd
Mathieu
Orazio Coclite
Incredibile (An Incroyable)
Roucher
Madelon
Madelon's Grandson
Fouquier-Tinville
Dumas
Gravier de Vergennes
Laval-Montmorency
Idia Legray
Schmidt

Show Dates

Broadcast

4/2/2017 delayed broadcast, KDFC.

Time and Place

Paris, shortly before and during the French Revolution.

Scenes

Act I: The Winter Garden at the Coigny Château, 1789
Act II: The Café Hottot by the Perronet Bridge; Paris, 1794
Intermission
Act III: The Hall of the Revolutionary Tribune; a few months later
Act IV: The courtyard of the Prison Saint-Lazare; the next morning, before dawn

Media

Sponsors

Andrea Chénier is made possible, in part, by Opening Weekend Grand Sponsor Diane B. Wilsey.

Major funding is also provided by John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn and Barbara A. Wolfe.

Maestro Luisotti's appearance is made possible by the Conductors Fund, established by Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem.

J'Nai Bridges' and David Pershall's appearances are made possible by the Emerging Stars Fund, established by Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem.

Mr. Lee's, Ms. Pirozzi's, and Mr. Gagnidze's appearances are made possible by a gift to the Great Singers Fund from Joan and David Traitel.

Legacy Commission

Sung in Italian with English supertitles

Notes

4/2/2017 delayed broadcast, KDFC.

San Francisco Opera co-production with Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and the National Centre for the Performing Arts, Beijing. 

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