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* TheCorrupter: Gérard isn't exactly an embodiment of virtue by himself, but he commits his worst act in the opera (trying a ScarpiaUltimatum on Maddalena) after being persuaded to do so by the Incroyable.
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* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Gérard. From a servant to one of the revolutionary leaders.
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* AdaptationExpansion: There is a photo novel based on the opera (and starring Corelli), which, though accompanied by the opera’s recording, deviates from its storyline a lot, introducing Maddalena’s father (a DisappearedDad in the original), a spy subplot involving Chénier, Bersi being in love with Chénier but deciding on IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy, and many more new plot elements.
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* AdaptationExpansion: There is a photo novel based on the opera (and starring Corelli), which, though accompanied by the opera’s recording, which deviates from its storyline a lot, introducing Maddalena’s father (a DisappearedDad in the original), a spy subplot involving Chénier, Bersi being in love with Chénier but deciding on IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy, and many more new plot elements.
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* TogetherInDeath: Chénier and Maddalena.
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* TogetherInDeath: Chénier and Maddalena.Maddalena are executed together.
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* VillainousAdviceSong: The Incroyable's ''Donnina innamorata''. "There are two parts in a woman: the heart and the body. Settle for the body, it's the better one!"
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* VillainousAdviceSong: The Incroyable's ''Donnina innamorata''. "There are two parts in a woman: the heart body and the body.heart. Settle for the body, it's the better one!"
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* VirginInAWhiteDress: Maddalena's innocence in the first act is emphasised by the simple white dress she decides to wear to the ball.
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* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Maddalena.Maddalena in the beginning, being a golden-haired kindhearted ingenue.
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** She [[FlowerInHerHair wears a rose]] to the ball in the first act.
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* WhosLaughingNow: Gérard's confession to Maddalena, apart from expressing his passion for her, is also this – he revels in the thought of finally being the one in power.
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* BigotryException: In the beginning of the first act, Gérard sings about how he wants all aristocrats to die. Maddalena excluded, of course.
* BigotWithACrush: Gerard, a servant at the de Coigny household, hates the aristocracy and wants to execute them all, except for Maddalena de Coigny with whom he is madly in love. His {{Yandere}} attempt to get her after a FullCircleRevolution, however, is what leads to her getting executed.
* BigotWithACrush: Gerard, a servant at the de Coigny household, hates the aristocracy and wants to execute them all, except for Maddalena de Coigny with whom he is madly in love. His {{Yandere}} attempt to get her after a FullCircleRevolution, however, is what leads to her getting executed.
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* UndyingLoyalty: Bersi actively helps Maddalena, even though, after the Revolution, nothing stops her from leaving the girl.
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*TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: The opera opens with Gérard declaring that all AristocratsAreEvil and therefore must die.
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* IfOnlyYouKnew: Chénier is moved to tears when Gérard defends him to the last (unsuccessfully), and admits as much in a touching FriendshipMoment after the trial. Gérard is usually portrayed as looking utterly crushed at this time, because it's him who organized Chénier's arrest in the first place.
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* KilledOffscreen: Maddalena's mother, who was killed at the door to her daughter's room as the rebels torched the estate.
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* BigotryException: In the beginning of the first act, Gérard sings about how he wants all aristocrats to die. Maddalena excluded, of course.
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* BreakTheCutie: Maddalena starts as a WideEyedIdealist without a care in the world. It pgets... very much worse.
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* BreakTheCutie: Maddalena starts as a WideEyedIdealist without a care in the world. It pgets...gets... very much worse.
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There is the usual tenor-soprano-baritone love triangle, with Chénier falling in love with Maddalena de Coigny, a young countess, who is forced to go into hiding after the revolution breaks out. Meanwhile, Gérard, formerly a servant at the Coigny household and now one of the revolutionary leaders, has also loved Maddalena since childhood, and it induces him to write down charges against the poet, effectively dooming him to the guillotine. However, when Maddalena comes to plead for her beloved, Gérard is overcome with remorse and tries to help Chénier, but in vain – the latter's sentenced to death. Maddalena switches place with a condemned noblewoman and goes to the guillotine with her beloved.
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There is the usual tenor-soprano-baritone love triangle, with Chénier falling in love with Maddalena de Coigny, a young countess, who is forced to go into hiding after the revolution breaks out. Meanwhile, Gérard, formerly a servant at the Coigny household and now one of the revolutionary leaders, has also loved Maddalena since childhood, and it induces him to write down charges against the poet, effectively dooming him to the guillotine. However, when Maddalena comes to plead for her beloved, Gérard is overcome with remorse and tries to help Chénier, but in vain – the latter's sentenced to death. Maddalena switches place places with a condemned noblewoman and goes to the guillotine with her beloved.
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* BreakTheCutie: Maddalena starts as a WideEyedIdealist without a care in the world. It gets... very much worse.
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* FullCircleRevolution: As Gérard puts it, "the revolution devours its children".
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* VillainWithGoodPublicity: "Long live Gérard!" Not surprising, since he is an AntiVillain who genuinely sympathizes with the commons.
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* CelebrityParadox: The character of Gérard is based on the real-life figure of Jean-Lambert Tallien, but Tallien himself also exists in the opera’s universe.
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* CelebrityParadox: The character of Gérard is based on the real-life figure of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Lambert_Tallien Jean-Lambert Tallien, Tallien]], but Tallien himself also exists in the opera’s universe.
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''Andrea Chénier'' is a verismo opera by Umberto Giordano, with a libretto by Luigi Illica (famous also for his work with Creator/GiacomoPuccini), first performed in 1896. The plot is based on the life of a poet André Chénier who was guillotined in 1794 during the UsefulNotes/FrenchRevolution.
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''Andrea Chénier'' is a verismo opera by Umberto Giordano, with a libretto by Luigi Illica (famous also for his work with Creator/GiacomoPuccini), Music/GiacomoPuccini), first performed in 1896. The plot is based on the life of a poet André Chénier who was guillotined in 1794 during the UsefulNotes/FrenchRevolution.
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''Andrea Chénier'' is a verismo opera by Umberto Giordano, with a libretto by Luigi Illica (famous also for his work with Creator/GiacomoPuccini), first performed in 1896. The plot is based on the life of a poet André Chénier who was shot in 1794 during the UsefulNotes/FrenchRevolution.
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''Andrea Chénier'' is a verismo opera by Umberto Giordano, with a libretto by Luigi Illica (famous also for his work with Creator/GiacomoPuccini), first performed in 1896. The plot is based on the life of a poet André Chénier who was shot guillotined in 1794 during the UsefulNotes/FrenchRevolution.
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* LoveMakesYouCrazy: Gérard, who even lampshades it when confessing his feelings to Maddalena.
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* ThenLetMeBeEvil: Gérard arrives at this conclusion by the end of his famous third-act aria. The revolution is all blood and gore, he has forsaken his high goals for personal ambition, he’s planning to send an innocent man to the guillotine and force himself on the man’s girlfriend – oh well, whatever, one can’t fight fate. He [[HeelFaceRevolvingDoor regrets it later]], though.
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* BreakTheCutie: Maddalena starts as a WideEyedIdealist without a care in the world. It gets... very much worse.
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* TogetherInDeath: Chénier and Maddalena.
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* HopeSpot: The moment when Maddalena forgives Gérard, and the latter enthusiastically proclaims he will certainly save Chénier.
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* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Gérard. From a servant to one of the leaders.
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''Andrea Chénier'' is a verismo opera by Umberto Giordano, with a libretto by Luigi Illica (famous also for his work with Creator/GiacomoPuccini), first performed in 1896. The plot is based on the life of a poet André Chénier who was shot in 1794 during the UsefulNotes/FrenchRevolution.
There is the usual tenor-soprano-baritone love triangle, with Chénier falling in love with Maddalena de Coigny, a young countess, who is forced to go into hiding after the revolution breaks out. Meanwhile, Gérard, formerly a servant at the Coigny household and now one of the revolutionary leaders, has also loved Maddalena since childhood, and it induces him to write down charges against the poet, effectively dooming him to the guillotine. However, when Maddalena comes to plead for her beloved, Gérard is overcome with remorse and tries to help Chénier, but in vain – the latter's sentenced to death. Maddalena switches place with a condemned noblewoman and goes to the guillotine with her beloved.
!! The opera contains examples of the following tropes:
* BeneathNotice: The servants' fate at the de Coigny household.
* EvilSoundsDeep: Played with concerning TragicVillain Gérard (a baritone). However, the really nasty Incroyable is a character tenor.
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Bersi, Maddalena's former maidservant, turns to prostitution to support herself and Maddalena after the revolution.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Both Maddalena and her mother towards the lower classes in the beginning.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Gérard realizes just how low he had sunk when Maddalena offers herself to him in exchange for Chénier's life.
* ObliviousToLove: For twenty-odd years (although how much of it is [[{{Yandere}} love]] can be called into question). Even after Gérard grabs Maddalena in the second act (shouting her name in the process), she doesn't realize what (whom) he's after.
-->'''Maddalena''': I don't know if you still remember me. I'm Maddalena de Coigny.
-->'''Gérard''': I have waited for you! I have arrested your lover to lure you to me!
-->'''Maddalena''': Why, then, do you want me here?
* RecycledPlot: Has numerous similarities with ''Theatre/{{Tosca}}'', and the librettist is the same.
* ScarpiaUltimatum: As some critics dub it, the trial run for the TropeNamer. Subverted, as Gérard [[NearRapeExperience backs away]] at the last moment.
** And it's discussed by the Incroyable as he convinces Gérard to go through with ordering Chénier's arrest.
* StalkerWithACrush: In the first act, Gérard watches Maddalena getting dressed for the ball. In the third, we learn it was far from the only time.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Swings between that and FriendlyEnemy with the male leads. Gérard and Chénier are in complete agreement concerning the true revolutionary ideals, but Gérard is insanely jealous of him and Maddalena.
* TragicRose: Maddalena is sometimes associated with roses.
** She [[FlowerInHerHair wears a rose]] to the ball in the first act.
** Gérard associates their childhood games with the wild roses' smell.
* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Gérard for Maddalena.
* VillainousAdviceSong: The Incroyable's ''Donnina innamorata''. "There are two parts in a woman: the heart and the body. Settle for the body, it's the better one!"
* WarriorPoet: Chénier. "Yes, I was a soldier" is the start of his defense speech, and he's definitely no wimp.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Gérard. From a servant to one of the leaders.
* YouAreTooLate: Even Gérard, with his gift of making passionate speeches, can't save Chénier from the Tribunal.
There is the usual tenor-soprano-baritone love triangle, with Chénier falling in love with Maddalena de Coigny, a young countess, who is forced to go into hiding after the revolution breaks out. Meanwhile, Gérard, formerly a servant at the Coigny household and now one of the revolutionary leaders, has also loved Maddalena since childhood, and it induces him to write down charges against the poet, effectively dooming him to the guillotine. However, when Maddalena comes to plead for her beloved, Gérard is overcome with remorse and tries to help Chénier, but in vain – the latter's sentenced to death. Maddalena switches place with a condemned noblewoman and goes to the guillotine with her beloved.
!! The opera contains examples of the following tropes:
* BeneathNotice: The servants' fate at the de Coigny household.
* EvilSoundsDeep: Played with concerning TragicVillain Gérard (a baritone). However, the really nasty Incroyable is a character tenor.
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Bersi, Maddalena's former maidservant, turns to prostitution to support herself and Maddalena after the revolution.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Both Maddalena and her mother towards the lower classes in the beginning.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Gérard realizes just how low he had sunk when Maddalena offers herself to him in exchange for Chénier's life.
* ObliviousToLove: For twenty-odd years (although how much of it is [[{{Yandere}} love]] can be called into question). Even after Gérard grabs Maddalena in the second act (shouting her name in the process), she doesn't realize what (whom) he's after.
-->'''Maddalena''': I don't know if you still remember me. I'm Maddalena de Coigny.
-->'''Gérard''': I have waited for you! I have arrested your lover to lure you to me!
-->'''Maddalena''': Why, then, do you want me here?
* RecycledPlot: Has numerous similarities with ''Theatre/{{Tosca}}'', and the librettist is the same.
* ScarpiaUltimatum: As some critics dub it, the trial run for the TropeNamer. Subverted, as Gérard [[NearRapeExperience backs away]] at the last moment.
** And it's discussed by the Incroyable as he convinces Gérard to go through with ordering Chénier's arrest.
* StalkerWithACrush: In the first act, Gérard watches Maddalena getting dressed for the ball. In the third, we learn it was far from the only time.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Swings between that and FriendlyEnemy with the male leads. Gérard and Chénier are in complete agreement concerning the true revolutionary ideals, but Gérard is insanely jealous of him and Maddalena.
* TragicRose: Maddalena is sometimes associated with roses.
** She [[FlowerInHerHair wears a rose]] to the ball in the first act.
** Gérard associates their childhood games with the wild roses' smell.
* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Gérard for Maddalena.
* VillainousAdviceSong: The Incroyable's ''Donnina innamorata''. "There are two parts in a woman: the heart and the body. Settle for the body, it's the better one!"
* WarriorPoet: Chénier. "Yes, I was a soldier" is the start of his defense speech, and he's definitely no wimp.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Gérard. From a servant to one of the leaders.
* YouAreTooLate: Even Gérard, with his gift of making passionate speeches, can't save Chénier from the Tribunal.
