LIVE FROM "THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE" IN LONDON

Synopsis:

During a sumptuous party in 18th century Paris, the poet Andrea Chénier delivers an impassioned speech in which he criticises Louis XVI. Five years later, the Revolution has given way to terror, transforming the balance of power between Chénier, his beloved Maddalena, and Gérard, the man who could destroy him...

Jonas Kaufmann leads David McVicar's spectacular staging under the baton of regular collaborator Antonio Pappano, who conducts Giordano's epic historical drama of revolution and forbidden love in his latest production as music director of the Royal Opera.

Pasión Vega travels the sound map of Federico García Lorca through the paths of music and words. Songs and poems that will remind us that although they killed Federico and silenced his voice, there is a 'Lorca sonoro' that will always resonate in the echoes of memory.

Here and now, in the pure voice of Pasión Vega, Federico is resurrected. His words and the beauty of his poems will be incarnated by an actor of breed.

He lives beyond the voices of death and dark love; he is resurrected in the black sounds that lead from Manuel Torre to Camarón, or in the dawn of New York, when Leonard Cohen and Enrique Morente dance a waltz in Vienna and we take him to the south, like a drink to the beat, that crosses continents and languages.

Federico García Lorca loved ‘the latent melody, structured with its nerve centres and its sprigs of blood’.

Dramaturgy and stage direction: Ana López Segovia. Musical direction: Jacob Sureda