Lamb to the slaughter(house): rare outing for 1857 Simon Boccanegra

Riccardo Zanellato (Fiesco), Adriano Gramigni (Pietro) and Vladimir Stoyanov (Simon Boccanegra)

Piero Pretti (Gabriele) and Roberta Mantegna (Amelia)

Roberta Mantegna (Amelia) and Vladimir Stoyanov (Boccanegra)

Simon Boccanegra, Act 1 finale

Piero Pretti (Gabriele), Roberta Mantegna (Amelia) and Vladimir Stoyanov (Boccanegra)

By Mark Pullinger, 26 September 2022

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“Stoyanov... gave Boccanegra dignity despite his indeterminate, non-doge rank”

Reviewed at Teatro Regio di Parma, Parma on 25 September 2022

Verdi, Simon Boccanegra (1857 version)

Teatro Regio di Parma

Riccardo Frizza, Conductor

Valentina Carrasco, Director

Martina Segna, Set Designer, Costume Designer

Ludovico Gobbi, Lighting Designer

Orchestra dell'Emilia Romagna Arturo Toscanini

Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma

Vladimir Stoyanov, Simon Boccanegra

Riccardo Zanellato, Jacopo Fiesco

Roberta Mantegna, Amelia Grimaldi

Piero Pretti, Gabriele Adorno

Devid Cecconi, Paolo Albiani

Adriano Gramigni, Pietro

Chiara Guerra, Amelia's maid

Paolo Antognetti, Captain

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Mark Pullinger

Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.

Lamb to the slaughter(house): rare outing for the original Simon Boccanegra at the Teatro Regio