Bettina Stöß
The Metropolitan Opera opens its first revival of Andrea Chénier in over ten years on Monday with Piotr Beczala and Sonya Yoncheva as the gutsy central pair, but that’s hardly all the red sauce on the menu; mere days later, you can give thanks for a new production of Fedora which will open in Berlin (and be broadcast live) with Vida Miknevičiūtė and Jonathan Tetelman slinging melodies.
Thursday’s Fedora marks the second production of a Giordano opera at the Deutsche Oper Berlin this season; today’s sampling was taken from performances of Chénier from this spring that featured the indefatigable Gregory Kunde opposite Sondra Radvanovsky.
So far, Fedora and Chénier are the only two Giordano operas making the rounds, but with this renewed interest in the composer’s works, perhaps we’re closer to large-scale revivals of Siberia or La cena delle beffe than we realize.
Giordano: Andrea Chénier, “Vicino a te”
Gregory Kunde
Sondra Radvanovsky
Axel Kober, conductor
Deutsche Oper Berlin
4 June 2025
In-house
