Event listing: Simon Boccanegra (1881 version) | Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Event is in the past

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Royal Opera House, Covent GardenBow Street, Covent Garden, London, Greater London, WC2E 9DD, United Kingdom

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Programme

Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901)

Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave

Performers

The Royal Opera
Sir Antonio Pappano	Conductor		2013 Jun 27, Jul 01, 03, 10, 13
Elijah Moshinsky	Director
Michael Yeargan	Set Designer		2013 Jun 27
Christopher Willis	Conductor		2013 Jul 16
Thomas Hampson	Baritone	Simon Boccanegra
Hibla Gerzmava	Soprano	Amelia Grimaldi (Maria Boccanegra)
Ferruccio Furlanetto	Bass	Jacopo Fiesco
Russell Thomas	Tenor	Gabriele Adorno
Dimitri Platanias	Baritone	Paolo Albiani
Jihoon Kim	Bass	Pietro

Reviews of Simon Boccanegra directed by Elijah Moshinsky

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Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, November 2018

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Simon Boccanegra at the Royal Opera

David Karlin, 27th June

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.

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