The music fills with a hope, and that'll change again. 'Look, the place that cradled me is burning.' Can you hear the heartache in her voice? Can you feel it, Joe? In come the strings, and it changes everything. She's saying how during the French Revolution, a mob set fire to her house, and her mother died. This is 'Andrea Chenier', Umberto Giordano. Joe Miller: I'm not that familiar with opera.Īndrew Beckett: This is my favorite aria.