San Francisco Opera's 2016-17 Season opens Friday, September 9 with a gala performance of Umberto Giordano's Andrea Chénier in a new production by Sir David McVicar. Company Music Director Nicola ...

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 ...

Jonas Kaufmann is but one dazzling reason to revive the rarely performed Andrea Chénier. And James MacMillan packs a punch with Inés de Castro ‘Incredible energy’: tenor Jonas Kaufmann, exiting far ...

Opera North brings to vivid life Umberto Giordano’s tale of a doomed poet in revolutionary France It may not be altogether fair to describe Umberto Giordano as a poor man’s Puccini, but it is true to ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. It is 30 years since the last Andrea Chénier at the Royal Opera House. Nobody seems to have missed it much, but when ...

A gem of Italian verismo opera, Giordano’s Andrea Chénier was presented at the National Theatre in Prague in 1897, a mere year after its world premiere at La Scala in Milan, and three months following ...

“Even Plato banished poets from his Republic,” wrote the merciless French revolutionary leader Maximilien Robespierre. Robespierre’s original French sprawls in huge letters across the show curtain of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A slow-motion battle has been playing out in opera. Radicals vs Traditionalists, it has thrown up extremes of ...

The upcoming opening of San Francisco Opera’s new season offers a fine example of how the cultures of the East can combine so fetchingly with those of the West, as can those of the well-trodden ...

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