Airs Saturday, July 13, 2019, at 12 noon. The WFMT Radio Network is pleased to continue its American Opera Series with nine productions from The Royal Opera House in Partnership with the European Broadcasting Union and the BBC. This week we present Andrea Chénier by Umberto Giordano.
Cast (in order of vocal appearance):
Carlo Gérard – Dimitri Platanias
Major Domo – John Cunningham
An Old Gardener –Richard Holliday
Maddalena Di Coigny – Sondra Radvanovsky
Bersi – Christine Rice
Contessa Di Coigny – Rosalind Plowright
Pietro Fléville – Steven Gadd
Filandro Fiorinelli– Daniel Vernan
Andrea Chénier – Roberto Alagna
The Abbe – Aled Hall
Mathieu– Adrian Clarke
Orazio Coclite – Michael Kenneth Stewart
The Incredible – Carlo Bosi
Roucher– David Stout
Maximilien Robespirre – Andrew Hobday
Madelon– Elena Zilio
Madelon’s Grandson – Theodore Matthews
Fouquier-Tinville– Eddie Wade
Dumas – Germán E. Alcántara
Gravier de Vergennes – Richard Holliday
Laval-Montmorency– Irene Hardy
Idia Legray – Judith Georgi
Schmidt– Jeremy White