South Korean tenor Yonghoon Lee (in his San Francisco Opera debut) stars as the titular Chénier, a poet whose romance with a noblewoman is threatened by the violent French Revolution. The opera was composed by Umberto Giordano with a libretto by Luigi Illica.
Andrea Chénier
Yonghoon Lee (Andrea Chénier) and George Gagnidze (Carlo Gérard) in Andrea Chénier (Photo: Cory Weaver)
