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| Composer | Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901) |
| Period | Romantic |
| Librettist | Francesco Maria Piave |
| Year | 1857 |
| Work type | Opera / Oratorio |
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BerlinSimon Boccanegra
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
Jader Bignamini; Vasily Barkhatov; Deutsche Oper Berlin; Yi-Chen Lin; Zinovy Margolin; Olga Shaishmelashvili; Alexander Sivaev
EssenSimon BoccanegraNew production
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
Tatjana Gürbaca; Aalto-Theater Essen; Klaus Grünberg; Silke Willrett; Essen Philharmonic Orchestra
HamburgSimon Boccanegra
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
Ivan Repušić; Claus Guth; Staatsoper Hamburg; Christian Schmidt; Wolfgang Göbbel; Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg
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Lamb to the slaughter(house): rare outing for 1857 Simon Boccanegra
Boccanegra butchered in Parma? Only in the sense that director Valentina Carrasca sets the opera in an abattoir...
Tézier rules in Zurich's still socially-distanced Simon Boccanegra
Andreas Homoki’s production suffers from last season's Covid restrictions, resulting in an alienating, aloof performance, but under the energetic baton of Marco Armiliato, it still proves a very successful musical evening.
An engaging revival of Simon Boccanegra at the Wiener Staatsoper
Tragic love, deceit, retribution... and Plácido Domingo. Despite its darkness, the Wiener Staatsoper's revival of Simon Boccanegra makes for an enjoyable evening.
Political intrigues at the Royal Opera as Boccanegra returns
An impressively cast revival for Verdi's one-time neglected masterpiece at Covent Garden.
Chung's Simon Boccanegra is worth a watch
If Chung is sometimes hailed as the greatest living conductor of Verdi, here was a performance to support that claim.