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...would request that the Crimson, in dealing with this matter in the future, exercise greater care. Kulth A. Nier Elia Baker Poet...
Although it came in the first week of the Met's 78th season, Meistersinger was not the opener. For that occasion the Met chose Umberto Giordano's Andrea Chénier, which is not a great opera-or even a very good one. Chénier, as General Manager Rudolf Bing candidly admitted, was the right length for an opener, and it had enough intermissions (three) to give first-nighters plenty of touring time in corridors, restaurant and lobbies. With Tenor Franco Corelli and Soprano Eileen Farrell in the lead roles, Chénier gave the audience...
Composer Giordano (1867-1948) made his most successful effort with Chénier (others: Fedora, Madame Sans-Gene). The opera's melodies may sing a little too much like Verdi's without Verdi's dramatic thrust; its flow may be as slippery as Wagner's without Wagner's soaring sense of continuity. But it has a ravishing choral addio (Act I), a roof-raising farewell duet, and cannily applause-getting arias for all of its principal singers...
Angel-voiced Soprano Milanov, as Chénier's aristocratic amour, and archangel-voiced Baritone Warren, as a servant turned revolutionary, helped make the Met's Chenier a solid success, but the hit of the evening was Tenor Mario Del Monaco, in the powerful title role. When his time came, he stood back, heaved an enormous breath, spread his arms and let fly with a stunning high B flat that he held until it began to sound as if a phonograph needle was stuck in the groove...
...real life, Poet André de Chénier (1762-94), called by French Critic Sainte-Beuve the greatest writer of French classic verse after Racine and Boileau, spoke out against the revolutionists' bloody excesses, was eventually executed for conspiring while in prison...