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Royal Opera House
2015-01-19 13:55:45
Andrea Chénier Musical Highlight – The Act III Trial Scene
Execution of Louis XVI, 1793. By Georg Heinrich Sieveking, from Wikimedia Commons Giordano ’s opera Andrea Chénier contains different ways of matching music and drama. There’s the Act I Improvviso , a famous and lyrical section in which the character of the eponymous hero is established. But Act III shows another very different use, more like a film score, in which the music responds to each twist of action to heighten its impact. Expansive melody is reserved for the lead characters, for intense emotional statements. But the sequences of short scenes that race us through the action require a different, strongly kinetic style. Threat, violence and war provide the atmosphere for the whole opera, and the portentous chords that begin Act III conjure up a sombre mood indeed. The instructions for the stage picture include those for a large banner that proclaims ‘Citizens! Your country is in danger!’. They further […]
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