Andrea Chenier
by Umberto Giordano

May 18, 7:00pm First United Methodist Church of Bellevue 1934 108th Ave NE Bellevue, WA

May 20, 5:00pm Bethany Lutheran Church, Greenlake 7400 Woodlawn Ave NE Seattle, WA

Suggested Donation: $15 General, $10 Student / Senior

Cast and Characters

Andrea Chénier, a poet	......	Gino Lucchetti
Carlo Gérard, a servant	......	Michael Drumheller
Maddalena de Coigny	......	Regina Thomas
Bersi, her maid (also covering Maddalena)	......	Deborah Blakesley
La comtesse di Coigny	......	TBA
Pietro Fléville, a novelist	......	Nathan Kondrat
Mathieu, a sans-culotte	......	Ryan Christopher Bede
The Abbé, a poet	......	TBA
The Incredible, a spy	......	TBA
Roucher, a friend of Chénier	......	James McAdams
Schmidt, a gaoler at St. Lazare	......	TBA
Madelon, an old woman	......	TBA
Fouquier Tinville, the Public Prosecutor	......	TBA
Dumas, Master of the Household	......	TBA
Conductor	......	Jonathan Pasternack
Chorus Master/Piano	......	John Burkhardt

Synopsis

Love and betrayal in the time of the French Revolution! The tragic love affair of a poet and French noblewoman. Maddelena meets Andrea Chenier the poet at a party in her home just before the revolution. When they meet again, she is in hiding and he is a wanting man because of the revolutionary sentiments of his poetry. They fall in love but Andrea Chenier is soon afterward captured, tried and condemned to death. Maddelena attempts to secure his freedom with the help of Gerard who is also in love with her, but it is too late to save Chenier. She cannot bear to live without him and so she exchanges places with a woman condemned to die and they go together to their death. Performed with a 10 piece chamber group of strings, winds and piano.