Word: chenier
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...each concert. His other plans are grandly hazy. He is tempted by a $250,000 offer to tour in Argentina. He sometimes speaks vaguely of accepting an offer to appear at Milan's famed La Scala, where he would like to sing Andrea Chenier, one of the twelve operatic roles he has learned. He is even vaguer about the great day when he may be ready to sing at the Met (top fee: $1,000 a performance...
...matter of fact, on a sour note. Critics agreed that the opening production of Carmen, with Mezzo-Soprano Gladys Swarthout and Tenor Ramon Vinay, was an unduly damp and dismal affair, even though it rained that night. But the second night's show was Giordano's Andrea Chenier, which had not had a major U.S. production for 16 years, and it was something to talk about...
Died. Umberto Giordano, 81, Italian composer who scored a one-shot success at 28 with his melodramatic opera of the French Revolution, Andrea Chenier; of a heart ailment; in Milan, Italy. To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Fascist revolution, in 1932, Mussolini ordered him to compose a special tune...
...Seria (in which, incidentally, the English translation went much better than it did in their recent Opera Buffa success, "Figaro") they might try next "La Clemenza di Tito," another Mozart work in the form and the last opera he wrote. Perhaps they might experiment with Berlioz, Giordano's "Andrea Chenier," or something very recent. If they go about their work as thoroughly and sincerely as they did for "Idomeneo," they can't miss with whatever they choose...
...curious fact, and a tragic one for America, that so many college students do not identify themselves vitally with the issues now at stake in France and Flanders. For them--and for all those whose preoccupation is with the balance of sacrifice and benefits returned--the words of Andre Chenier cannot be understood...