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Antonio Pappano conducts his last-ever production as Music Director of the Royal Opera, with star tenor Jonas Kaufmann as the real-life French Revolutionary poet Chénier. In this tragic, heroic love story Chénier falls for the young aristocrat Maddalena di Coigny, sung by Sondra Radvanovsky... but they're pitted against the revolutionary Gérard, sung by Amartuvshin Enkhbat, who was once a servant in Maddalena's mother's palace and has loved her from childhood. Giordano and his librettist Luigi Illica paint an astonishingly vivid picture of revolutionary Paris in all its idealism, rivalry and terror. And as Jonas Kaufmann says, you'll be in tears at the end.

Presented by Andrew McGregor in conversation with Sarah Hibberd.

Umberto Giordano: Andrea Chénier
Andrea Chénier ….. Jonas Kaufmann (tenor)
Maddalena di Coigny ….. Sandra Radvanovsky (soprano)
Gérard ….. Amartuvshin Enkhbat (baritone)
Bersi, Maddalena's friend ….. Katia Ledoux (mezzo-soprano)
Incroyable (spy) ….. Alexander Kravets (tenor)
Madelon ….. Elena Zilio (mezzo-soprano)
Roucher, Chénier's friend ….. Ashley Riches (bass-baritone)
Countess di Coigny, Maddalena's mother ….. Rosalind Plowright (mezzo-soprano)
Fléville, writer ….. William Dazeley (baritone)
Abbé ….. Aled Hall (tenor)
Mathieu ….. James Cleverton (baritone)
Schmidt, gaoler ….. Jeremy White (bass)
Dumas ….. Thomas Barnard (bass)
Fouquier-Tinville ….. Eddie Wade (baritone)
Majordomo ….. Simon Thorpe (baritone)
Royal Opera Chorus
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Conductor Antonio Pappano