It’s not often that you see a director look as nervous as David McVicar did on taking his bow this evening, but there was no need, since his new production of Giordano’s star-tenor slice of verismo ...

At a glittering party in 18th-century Paris, the poet Andréa Chenier delivers an impassioned denunciation of Louis XVI. Five years later, the Revolution has given way to the Terror, transforming the ...