Ch nier' makes a stodgy Opera opening

R, Anna Pirozzi as Maddalena di Coigny, Alex Boyer as The Abbe, and Catherine Cook as Contessa di Coigny during a dress rehearsal for the San Francisco Opera's production of Giordani's opera "Andrea Chenier" about love and death during the French Revolution at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco, Calif., on Tuesday, September 6, 2016.