Del Monaco - Andrea Chenier - Codaex Deutschland

This is the best Chénier on video, and the soundtrack is thrilling to heat. The caliber of these performances is rarely matched elsewhere. This isn't opera to them, it's life. Looking at the other videos one could scarcely imagine so much detail was possible. Del Monaco's Chénier is above all a person: ardent, needy and sensitive. Stella matches him for tenderness and abandon. These two are so endearing and recognizable as decent humans caught up in murderous events that the opera becomes very moving. They sound spectacular on the soundtrack.