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Starry singing, but an underdirected Simon Boccanegra at Staatsoper Berlin

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“[Furlanetto] persuaded the listener completely of the venom of Fiesco's implacable, immutable rage”
Reviewed at Schillertheater: Großer Saal, Berlin on 8 May 2016
Verdi, Simon Boccanegra
Staatsoper Berlin
Daniel Barenboim, Conductor
Federico Tiezzi, Director
Maurizio Balò, Set Designer
Giovanna Buzzi, Costume Designer
Plácido Domingo, Simon Boccanegra
Ferruccio Furlanetto, Jacopo Fiesco
Krassimira Stoyanova, Amelia Grimaldi
Gaston Rivero, Gabriele Adorno
Alfredo Daza, Paolo Albiani
Dominic Barberi, Pietro
Elsa Dreisig, Amelia's maid
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