Andrea Chenier by Giordano, From (2016/2016), Directed by Marco Spada, Conductor Marcello Mottadelli, Teatro Verdi, Sassari, Italy

The 2016 season closes with the drama of the poet Andrea Chénier - a character who really existed at the time of the French Revolution -, set to music by Umberto Giordano and who triumphantly debuted at the Scala in Milan in 1896. Between Robespierre and sans-culottes, the story that binds Chénier, from ideals, takes place revolutionaries, to the young Magdalene, a noble heiress who will lose everything precisely because of the Revolution. The Terror, however, will not spare Chénier and the fate of the two will be marked by a common tragic epilogue. It had been in Sassari in 2003. This edition sees a new staging in which, above all, the voice of Gerard, Vittorio Vitelli, stands out.