ANDREA CHENIER IN FULL SCORE
BY: UMBERTO GIORDANO

FORMAT: MUSIC SCORES
PAGE COUNT: 368

DESCRIPTION:
-BY THE MIDDLE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, UMBERTO GIORDANO HAD ESTABLISHED HIMSELF AS A LEADING FIGURE IN THE VERISMO (REALISTIC) SCHOOL OF OPERA COMPOSITION, RIVALING LEONCAVALLO AND MASCAGNI IN IMPORTANCE. TODAY HIS FAME RESTS ON A SINGLE WORK, ANDREA CHÉNIER, FIRST PERFORMED IN 1896. BASED ON THE LIFE OF A FRENCH POET, THE INTENSE AND DRAMATIC STORY UNFOLDS AMID THE TUMULT OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.

-THE REAL-LIFE FIGURE WHO INSPIRED THIS DRAMA WAS INITIALLY A FERVENT SUPPORTER OF THE REVOLUTION BUT SPOKE OUT AGAINST THE VIOLENCE OF MOB RULE. ANDREA CHÉNIER RECOUNTS THE POET`S LOVE FOR A YOUNG ARISTOCRAT AND THE CONFLICT WITH HIS COMRADE AND ROMANTIC RIVAL, WITH WHOM HE IS HONOR-BOUND TO FIGHT A DUEL. A STAPLE OF OPERA HOUSES ALL OVER THE WORLD, THE WORK APPEARS HERE IN A LARGE-FORMAT, DURABLE, AND MODESTLY PRICED EDITION.

-REPRINT OF A STANDARD EDITION.