Composer

It is the summer of 1789. A festivity is being prepared in the castle of Countess de Coigny. Charles Gérard, a servant of the Countess´ voices his hatred of the French aristrocracy´s decadence. His aged Father is forced to labour all day long and Gérard himself leads the undignified life of a lackey. Moreover, he is secretly and unhappily in love with Madeleine de Coigny, the daughter of the House with whom he was raised. The political situation is very tense. When the visitors attending the ball finally arrive, they try to distract themselves from the disquieting news from Paris with the help of arcadian idylls and games. The young poet André Chénier is among the guests. Madeleine requests him to recite a poem. He sings of love and laments the injustice of the powers that be in such a convincing manner that Madeleine is deeply moved and forced to quit the room. The doors are suddely opened and a mob of irate people led by Gérard shocks the ball guests. However, the Countess manages to pacify and disperse the mob. The dancing continues.

Andrea Chenier

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Umberto Giordano’s FEDORA swings between whodunnit and the world of political intrigue, at once a tragic love story and a riveting psychogram. The opera was based on the play of the same name by Victorien Sardou, a French playwright who had already provided the source material for Puccini’s TOSCA. The triumphant world premiere of FEDORA in 1898 at the Tetro Lirico in Milan went down in history for featuring the break-out performance of the legendary tenor Enrico Caruso, who established its best-known aria, “Amor ti vieta”, in the collective memory of the world’s operagoers. That first production went on to huge international acclaim, touring Vienna, Paris, Hamburg and the New York MET. Giordano’s best received work after ANDREA CHÉNIER, FEDORA continues to thrill audiences with its musical richness and iconic melodies as it goes about depicting a fin-de-siécle elite whose private issues become entangled with political wheeling and dealing.

Fedora

Giordano’s passionate tragedy stars tenor Piotr Beczała as the virtuous poet who falls victim to the intrigue and violence of the French Revolution. Following their celebrated recent partnership in Giordano’s Fedora, Beczała reunites with soprano Sonya Yoncheva as Chénier’s aristocratic lover, Maddalena di Coigny, with baritone Igor Golovatenko as Carlo Gérard, the agent of the Reign of Terror who seals their fates. Daniele Rustioni takes the podium to lead Nicolas Joël’s gripping staging.

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Andrea Chénier

Lincoln Center

The November darkness may be thick, but we get to enjoy a dazzling opera gala with world-renowned tenor Jonas Kaufmann. This unique, generous evening offers familiar opera favourites, together with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and conductor Jochen Rieder.

Opera Gala with Jonas Kaufmann

Göteborgs Symfoniker

Great Voices is a concert series initiated in the 2025/26 season by Boris Kudlička , the new director of the Grand Theatre - National Opera. It will feature an elite group of Polish opera singers of international renown, who have had the opportunity to invite international artists to collaborate with them. The opening performance will feature Aleksandra Kurzak and Robert Alagna in a duet, followed by Artur Ruciński and Prette Yende in February, Tomasz Konieczny and Camilla Nylund in April, and Piotr Beczała in May.

Great Voices: Aleksandra Kurzak / Roberto Alagna

Teatr Wielki - Polish National Opera

Beethoven’s Triple Concerto for violin, cello, and piano is a monumental work characterized by rich orchestral textures and the masterful artistry of its soloists. It features Musical America’s Musicians of the Year cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han alongside violinist Julian Rhee.

Beethoven & Bernstein

Green Music Center

In his libretto for Umberto Giordano's Andrea Chénier, Luigi Illica gave the character of Carlo Gérard—once a lackey, now a revolutionary hero—a phrase taken from the Girondist Vergniaud, who was executed in 1793: "The revolution devours its own children." This prominent quote reflects the core of the opera's plot, which premiered at La Scala in Milan in 1896: In a powerful historical narrative, it demonstrates how the French Revolution, in the course of its radicalization, also turned against people who had shared its ideals. Among them is the poet André Chénier (1762-1794), who is introduced in the opera as a guest at a nobleman's feast in 1789. In this decadent atmosphere, musically evoked by Rococo allusions, Chénier dares to denounce the social injustices of the Ancien Régime, provoking outrage but impressing the hostess's daughter, Maddalena, and the rebellious servant Carlo Gérard. After a leap in time of five years, we meet these three characters again under completely different circumstances. In her famous aria "La mamma morta," Maddalena describes how her family and possessions were taken from her, and how only her faith in love, to which Chénier once opened her eyes, kept her alive. However, Chénier cannot offer her the protection she seeks from him; as a critic of Robespierre's Reign of Terror, he, too, is acutely threatened. Even Gérard appears to be a victim of the political situation: after shying away at the last moment from exploiting his current position of power to subjugate the passionately desired Maddalena, he remorsefully tries to save the imprisoned Chénier from the guillotine - in vain.

Great Festival House

He takes down the largest concert halls around the world. Now he has found his way to Tivoli again with a concert where he has composed the entire program himself. The brilliant, Chilean-born tenor star Jonathan Tetelman comes to Copenhagen together with our resident star soprano Yana Klayn. He has conjured up the idea that the very best opera duets are those between lovers, who, as we already know from the start, often never get to see each other. Something very special happens with both the scenic expression and the composers' imagination when the all-encompassing love, which we as the audience know cannot be allowed to unfold, becomes the focal point.

Tivoli: Tetelman and Kleyn – Impossible Love

Tivolis Koncertsal

In February 2025, Prague will host a starry opera gala. The phenomenal Mongolian baritone Amartuvshin Enkhbat, who receives offers from the most famous opera houses, accepted the invitation of the Nachtigall Artists agency, and found a place in his busy calendar for one performance in Prague.

In 2012, his victory in the Operalia world competition opened his way among world opera elite. Yet, it still took some time before the opera houses noticed him. Other competition successes followed, including the Francesco Viñas International Competition in Barcelona as well as the famous BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition. Consequently, invitations to the Metropolitan Opera in New York followed (Giorgio Germont in La traviata), La Scala in Milan (Rigoletto and Macbeth), and in April 2024 Amartuvshin Enkhbat will perform as Scarpia in Tosca at the Vienna State Opera.

Juliana Grigoryan & Amartuvshin Enkhbat

Smetana Hall Municipal House

Special concert 2025

Museum Ludwig

The festive opera night lasts approx. 2 hours without an interval. After the stage programme, the opera will remain open: With music, culinary offerings and artistic interventions, you can experience a unique "Night at the Opera".

Festive opera night for the German Aids Foundation

Join us in the Coade Theatre to celebrate our 50th anniversary year with an unforgettable Gala Concert compèred by renowned writer and radio presenter Natalie Wheen. At the orchestra podium, conductors Jose Miguel Esandi, Jeremy Carnall and Sonia Ben-Santamaria, will take you on a journey through a spectacular selection of music featuring soloists Brindley Sherratt, Anna Patalong and Letitia Vitelaru, emerging artists and the wall of sound Dorset Opera Festival Chorus.

50th Anniversary Gala Concert

Bryanston School

Westphalian Music Festival Hamm

Sattel-Fest Hamm 20. Juli 25

Da Bellini in poi

Villa Bellini

Celebrate the start of a new season with Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Ball, an unforgettable red-carpet evening complete with a champagne toast. The “astoundingly virtuosic and blazingly insightful” (The Guardian) Leonidas Kavakos joins the CSO in Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto. Instrumental selections from Italian operas conclude the concert, underscoring the Chicago Tribune’s assertion that “no living conductor knows more about these scores” than Riccardo Muti.

Symphony Ball: Muti & Kavakos

Symphony Center

In a hallmark of his partnership with the CSO, Riccardo Muti takes center stage to conduct selections from Verdi’s enthralling, passion-filled operas. The program also features a lineup of treasured Italian opera repertoire performed by internationally acclaimed singers and the Chicago Symphony Chorus.

An Opera Night with Riccardo Muti

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Teatro Lirico d’Europe and the Connecticut Virtuosi presents the Tribute to Pavarotti concert program with projections that tell the story of each piece will feature highlights from: Giordano ANDREA CHÉNIER, Bellini NORMA, Verdi IL TROVATORE, Puccini TOSCA, Verdi LA TRAVIATA, Donizetti LA FILLE DU REGIMENT, Puccini LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST, Puccini TURANDOT, and other operas associated with the great tenor’s career plus several romanzas and canzones that Pavarotti’s popularity brought to the attention of the entire world!

Tribute to Pavarotti

First Presbyterian Church of Hartford

A poet. A revolution. A love worth dying for.
In May 2026, OperaDelaware proudly presents Giordano’s sweeping masterpiece Andrea Chénier—an explosive tale of passion, political upheaval, and poetic courage set during the final, fiery days of the French Revolution.
Inspired by the life of real-life poet André Chénier, this gripping work of Italian verismo opera follows an artist who dares to speak truth to power. As the world around him crumbles into chaos and bloodshed, Chénier’s words become weapons—elevating ideals of liberty and love above fear and oppression. But when he falls for the noblewoman Maddalena and crosses paths with the vengeful revolutionary Gérard, a tragic triangle forms with fate hanging in the balance.

Composer

Umberto Giordano

Events

Upcoming events

19 - 21 Mar, 2026

An Opera Night with Riccardo Muti · Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association

May 3, 2026

Tribute to Pavarotti · Connecticut Virtuosi

10 - 15 May, 2026

Andrea chénier · OperaDelaware

Jun 21, 2026

Radvanovsky/De Tommaso · Teatro di San Carlo

Past events

8 - 18 Dec, 2025

Andrea Chenier · Deutsche Oper Berlin

Nov 27 - Dec 10, 2025

Fedora · Deutsche Oper Berlin

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