BY KAREN BOSSICK

Umberto Giordano’s passionate tragedy about a virtuous poet who falls victim to the intrigue and violence of the French Revolution will be screened Saturday as the latest in The Metropolitan Opera’s live simulcast MetHD.

“Andrea Chenier” will start at 10:55 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 13, at Merlin’s Magic Lantern in Ketchum. The screening, sung in Italian with subtitles, will run three hours and 30 minutes with two intermissions.

The screening is presented by Sun Valley Opera and Broadway with Merlin’s Magic Lantern.

The opera stars tenor Piotr Beczala as the poet. He will reunite with soprano Sonya Yoncheva, with whom he stared in Giordano’s “Fedora” in the 2022-23 Live in HD season.

Yoncheva stars as Chenier’s aristocratic lover Maddalena di Coigny, and baritone Igor Golovatenko will star as the agent of the Reign of Terror who seals their fates.

The opera starts out in a chateau near Paris in 1789 where poet Chenier scandalizes the guests with his criticism of the clergy and the aristocracy’s indifference to the sufferings of the impoverished. The Revolution begins a few years later with the Reign of Terror in full force.

A box of Kleenex would come in handy for what follows.

Met Principal Guest Conductor Daniele Rustioni will take the podium in front of Nicolas Joel’s staging.

Tickets are $22 for general audiences and $20 for seniors.