from Act III of the Italian opera
Andrea Chénier by Umberto Giordano
Libretto: Luigi Illica
Role: Madelon, an old woman who is blind
Voice Part: mezzo-soprano
Setting: The Revolutionary Tribunal
Synopsis: Madelon, an older blind woman, has come to give the last possession she has to the cause of the revolution. Her grandson, whose father died in the taking of the Bastillé, can fight and die! She bids Gérard to take him for the cause.