Rechercher des critiques de musique classique, opéra et ballet | Simon Boccanegra

L'Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier reprend la mise en scène de David Hermann créée en 2017. Une production marquée par la belle direction de Michael Schønwandt.

Nouvelle production à l'Opéra Bastille, avec le Simon Boccanegra de Calixto Bieito. Une plongée dans les idées noires du personnage principal, magnifiquement interprété par Ludovic Tézier.

Simon Boccanegra, opéra encore à la marge en regard des autres productions verdiennes, retrouve ici tout son panache grâce au talent d’une équipe artistique sans faille réunie par l'Opéra de Monte-Carlo. 

Peter Steins Inszenierung spiegelt gekonnt ein Werk wider, in dem sich musikalische Schlichtheit und üppiger Klang abwechseln.

In einer konventionellen Inszenierung, aber einem stimmungsvollen Bühnenbild stirbt in Baden-Baden Plácido Domingo als Simon Boccanegra einen würdevollen Operntod.

An impressively cast revival for Verdi's one-time neglected masterpiece at Covent Garden.

If Chung is sometimes hailed as the greatest living conductor of Verdi, here was a performance to support that claim.

A production which did not make a strong impression in Naples, despite a first rate cast. 

Verdi voices that make one sit up and listen made this a memorable matinee.

Verdi's most political opera feels particularly relevant in 2016, and the Opera Australia production convinces, thanks to the outstanding George Petean in the title role and an excellent supporting cast.

Furlanetto and Domingo give their all in leading a starry cast, but the stage direction fails to ignite.

Leo Nucci y Josep Bros se coronan como triunfadores en un Simon Boccanegra "mensual", a la espera de Plácido Domingo

The Met brought back a 20-year-old traditional production of Simon Boccanegra with a starry cast led by James Levine.

Verdi's rarely-performed masterpiece gets an intense, intimate outing with a very fine cast at Fulham Opera.

Patchy vocal offering saved by superb orchestra in Verdi's Simon Boccanegra.

Excellent music-making over an indecisive but faithful Simon Boccanegra production opens Genoa's Teatro Carlo Felice new season.

School’s out for summer and with it the opportunity for the Royal Opera’s Jette Parker Young Artists to showcase their talents in the end of term main stage performance. 

Andrea De Rosa’s atmospheric production of Simon Boccanegra uses a series of landscapes projected onto a cyclorama to evoke the Gulf of Genoa. 

Nucci's studied performance of the title role in Simon Boccanegra ensured Verdi's drama shone profoundly. 

Stehende Ovationen für hochklassige musikalische Leistungen in Dmitri Tcherniakovs Produktion.

A modern, simple production of Simon Boccanegra at Dresden's Semperoper, doesn’t interfere with the action.  

Last night’s Covent Garden revival of Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra was a study in time slips. On stage, there is the 25 year slip between the end of the prologue, when Simon is named Doge of Genoa, and the dramatic events of Act I. There is the 24 year gap between the disastrous première of the original opera and the triumph of the heavily revised 1881 version.

With the business situation in the recording industry being what it is, studio recordings of operas are more or less ruled out. The positive side of this is that the general public gets the chance to be part of concerts that are recorded and enjoy the tension such an event creates more often.

English Touring Opera’s Verdi title for their Spring season in this composer’s (and Wagner’s) anniversary year is one of no small ambition. Premièred to only modest success in Venice in 1857, it would take Verdi another 20 or so years to return to Simon Boccanegra to try to fix the old “wobbly table” (as he and his librettist, Boito, later dubbed the 1857 version).

In 1971, the thirty year-old Placido Domingo made his Covent Garden début as Cavaradossi in Puccini's Tosca and in the intervening forty years, he has given two hundred and thirty performances in more than twenty-five roles for Royal Opera House audiences.

Verdi's Simon Boccanegra explores how the characters of powerful men change (or don't) with age and fortune: the action happens over several decades, and the character of Simon gives wonderful scope for some serious character acting.