This opera's baritone lead has a moment of doubt about destroying the hero in the aria "Nemico del patria": highlights for tenor include the arias "Un di all'azzuro spazio," in which he scandalizes some complacent aristocrats, and "Come [koh-MAY] un bel di di Maggio," sung right before his execution.
This opera's baritone lead has a moment of doubt about destroying the hero in the aria "Nemico del patria": highlights for tenor include the arias "Un di all'azzuro spazio," in which he scandalizes some complacent aristocrats, and "Come [koh-MAY] un bel di di Maggio," sung right before his execution. Gerard is the immediate audience for the opera's most famous aria, in which Maddalena tells of her poverty after the death of her mother in a revolutionary outrage, titled "La Mamma Morta." Gerard is conscience-stricken and tries to speak up at the hero's trial, but the hero insists on admitting his patriotic service and is thus taken to be guillotined. Jeu de paume and Hymn to the Swiss are among the real works of the French poet hero who is executed by revolutionaries in, FTP, what best-known work of Umberto Giordano.
This opera's baritone lead has a moment of doubt about destroying the hero in the aria "Nemico del patria": highlights for tenor include the arias "Un di all'azzuro spazio," in which he scandalizes some complacent aristocrats, and "Come [koh-MAY] un bel di di Maggio," sung right before his execution.
{Andrea Chenier} or {Andre Chenier}