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Andrea Chenier
Historical opera in four acts, with libretto by luigi ILLICA and music by Umberto Giordano. (sung in Italian)
Majordomo/Dumas,
President of the Committee of Public (bass) (baritone) (soprano) (mezzo-sop) (baritone)(tenor) (tenor) (bass) (bass)
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF
THE TEATRO ALLA SCALA.
MILAN/OUVIERO DE FABRTTIIS Mono records: 1941
There can seldom have been so strong, so right, a team for this kind of music as Caniglia, Gigli and Bechi. ANDREW PORTER

Contributors

Music By:
Umberto Giordano.
Unknown:
Andrew Porter
Safety/Schmidt, gaoler of St Lazare prison:
Gino Conti
Carlo Gerard, servant to the Countess, later a Revolutionary officer:
Gino Bechi
Maddalena di Coigny:
Maria Caniglia
Countess di Coigny, her mother:
Giuljetta Simionato
Bersi, Maddalena's mulatto maid:
Maria Huder
Pietro Fleville, the house poet, a King's Pensioner/ Fouquier-Tinville, public prosecutor:
Giuseppe Taddei
Abbe, a poet/An Incroyable, a spy:
Adelio Zagonara
Andrea Chenier, a Revolutionary poet:
Beniamino Gigli
Mathieu, a violent:
Leone Paci
Roucher, a friend of Chenier:
Italo Tajo
Madelon, an old woman:
Vittoria Palombini
Source: Radio Times

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