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Umberto Giordano’s Andrea Chénier

HISTORY

Premiere March 28, 1896, at Teatro alla Scala in , with the following cast: Andrea Chénier,; Maddalena, Evelina Carrera; Carlo Gérard, ; Bersi, Maddalena Ticci; Madelon & La Contessa, Della Rogers; Mathieu, Michele Wigley; Roucher, Gaetano Roveri; Un Incroyable, Enrico Giordani; Pietro Fléville, Gaetano Roveri; The Abbé, Enrico Giordani; Fouquier Tinville, Ettore Brancaleone; Schmidt, Master of the Household, and Dumas, Raffaele Terzi

North American Premiere November 13, 1896, in New York at the Academy of Music

Last Performed by Washington National September-October, 2004 in the Kennedy Center Opera House, featuring Eugene Kohn/Plácido Domingo conducting and Mariusz Trelinski directing with the following cast: Andrea Chénier,Salvatore Licitra/Carlo Ventre; Maddalena, Paoletta Marrocu; Carlo Gérard, Jorge Lagunes; Bersi & Madelon, Elizabeth Bishop; La Contessa, Kari Alkema/Kyle Engler; Mathieu, John Marcus Bindel; Roucher, James Shaffran; An Incroyable, Robert Baker; Pietro Fléville, Michael Chioldi; The Abbé, Peter Joshua Burroughs; Fouquier Tinville, Mario Bellanova; Schmidt, Robert Cantrell; Master of the Household, Michael Nansel; Dumas, W. Paul Edson

Umberto Giordano’s Marina , composed 1888, unpublished Malavita , February 21, 1892, Teatro Argentina, Rome , March 5, 1894, Teatro Mercadante, Naples Andrea Chénier , March 28, 1896, Teatro alla Scala, Milan , November 17, 1898, , Milan Il voto (revival of Malavita ), September 6, 1902, Teatro Bellini, Naples , December 19, 1903, 1903, Teatro alla Scala, Milan , November, 9, 1907, Teatro Lirico, Milan , March,17, 1910, , Palermo Madame sans gêne , January 25, 1915, , New York Giove a Pompei , July, 6, 1921, Teatro La Pariola, Rome , December 20, 1924, Teatro alla Scala, Milan , January 12, 1929, Teatro alla Scala, Milan

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