Event listing: Simon Boccanegra | Hackney Empire | Fri 8 Mar 2013 at 19:30

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Hackney Empire291 Mare Street, Hackney, London, Greater London, E8 1EJ, United Kingdom

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Programme

Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901)

Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave

Performers

English Touring Opera
Michael Rosewell	Conductor
James Conway	Director
Craig Smith	Baritone	Simon Boccanegra
Elizabeth Llewellyn	Soprano	Amelia Grimaldi (Maria Boccanegra)
Keel Watson	Bass	Jacopo Fiesco
Grant Doyle	Baritone	Paolo Albiani
Charne Rochford	Tenor	Gabriele Adorno
Piotr Lempa	Bass	Pietro

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Francesca Vella, 8th March

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).

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