Singers bring passion and excitement to Met’s Andrea Chénier revival

Sonya Yoncheva (Maddalena) and Piotr Beczała (Andrea Chénier)

Igor Golovatenko (Carlo Gérard)

Piotr Beczała (Andrea Chénier) and Sonya Yoncheva (Maddalena)

Andrea Chénier at the Metropolitan Opera

By Susan Stempleski, 25 November 2025

Loading, please wait...

See full listing

“where the charismatic pair delivered all the vocal excitement one could hope for”

Reviewed at Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, New York City on 24 November 2025

Giordano, Andrea Chénier

Metropolitan Opera

Daniele Rustioni, Conductor

Nicolas Joël, Director

Hubert Monloup, Set Designer, Costume Designer

Duane Schuler, Lighting Designer

The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

The Metropolitan Opera Chorus

Piotr Beczała, Andrea Chénier

Igor Golovatenko, Carlo Gérard

Sonya Yoncheva, Maddalena de Coigny

Siphokazi Molteno, Bersi

Nancy Fabiola Herrera, La comtesse de Coigny

Olesya Petrova, Madelon

Brenton Ryan, L'Incredible

Tony Stevenson, The Abbé

Jeongcheol Cha, Dumas

Christopher Job, Fouquier-Tinville

Ben Strong, Major-Domo

Maurizio Muraro, Mathieu

Guriy Gurev, Roucher

Richard Bernstein, Schmidt

Alexander Birch Elliott, Pietro Fléville

Tristan und Isolde at the Met: staging gets in the way of the music

No’a L. bat Miri, 9th March

Michael Spyres shines in his debut as Tristan alongside powerhouse soprano Lise Davidsen as Isolde in Yuval Sharon's new, beguiling production at the Metropolitan Opera.

***11

Ailyn Pérez is the perfect Butterfly in the Met’s revival

Robert Levine, 13th January

Good Butterflys are not that difficult to come by but great ones are very very rare. Ailyn Pérez fits the bill in this revival of Anthony Minghella’s classic staging.

*****

Vocal thrills in Met’s traditional staging of Bellini’s I puritani

Susan Stempleski, 31st December

Marco Armiliato conducts a finely balanced rendition of Bellini's final masterpiece with a stellar cast headed by Lisette Oropesa and Lawrence Brownlee.

*****

Porgy and Bess returns stronger than ever at the Met

Robert Levine, 7th December

Back to Catfish Row for another revival of The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess and James Robinson’s show continue to wow our writer.

*****

Willis-Sørensen headlines a successful Arabella revival at the Met

Ako Imamura, 10th November

The Metropolitan Opera revives Otto Schenk’s venerable staging of Strauss’s intimate melodrama.

****1

Rolando Villazón’s staging of La sonnambula charms The Met

Susan Stempleski, 6th October

Nadine Sierra stars as a highly affecting Amina in the tenor-turned-director’s revisionist take on Bellini’s bel canto masterwork.

****1

More reviews...

Susan Stempleski

Based in New York City, Susan is a retired specialist in second and foreign language teaching and the author/editor of several professional books for language teachers and many widely used textbooks for English language learners around the world. An avid concertgoer, she spends her time attending operas and other classical music events in New York and Paris. Since 2002, she has regularly published reviews on Classical Source. A keen Francophile, she has a particularly strong interest in French music, literature and film.

Beczała, Yoncheva and Golovatenko bring passion and excitement to Met’s Andrea Chénier revival