The San Francisco Opera won’t celebrate its centennial for another few years yet, but the company is already getting into a nostalgic frame of mind. The stodgy production of Umberto Giordano’s “Andrea ...

It’s hard to get past the spectacle of it all – elegant Ancien Régime interiors, lit so beautifully with early-evening warmth by Adam Silverman, giving way to cinematic street scenes. Yes, these ...

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 ...

It’s all in the arm, clearly. The Royal Opera‘s music director only has to wave a stick at a potboiler like Andrea Chénier and it’s practically a masterpiece. Antonio Pappano‘s talent is a rare gift: ...

Playing things straight in his new production of Andrea Chénier (if wigs and lavender stockings, chandeliers and pastoral divertissements can be called straight), David McVicar may have missed a trick ...