Simon Boccanegra

Simon Boccanegra (2010)

Strong traditional production with a few modern touches.

  • Genre: Music
  • Release Date: 2010-04-16
  • Runtime: 2h 29min
  • Language: Italiano
  • Production Company: Teatro alla Scala
  • Production Country: Italy
  • Director: Federico Tiezzi

Trailer

Summary

Coming just before the mature final works, Verdi's Simon Boccanegra - along with Un Ballo in Maschera, Les Vêpres Siciliennes, La Forza del Destino and Don Carlos - occupy a strange but fascinating hinterland in the career of the composer. Each of the operas, influenced by Verdi's political involvement in the Risorgimento for the reunification of Italy during the period, are very much concerned with the exercise of power, but they all rely on typically operatic conventions of bel canto and French Grand Opéra in their use of personal tragedies and unlikely twists of fate to highlight the human feelings and weaknesses that lie behind their historical dramas. Written in 1859, but revised by the composer in 1881, Piave's libretto given an uncredited reworking by Arrigo Boito, Simon Boccanegra is consequently one of the more interesting works from this period, certainly from a musical standpoint. Live from Teatro all Scala, Milan 2010.

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  • Plácido Domingo

    as Simon Boccanegra
  • Ferruccio Furlanetto

    as Jacopo Fiesco-Andrea
  • Anja Harteros

    as Amelia
  • Massimo Cavalletti

    as Paolo Albani
  • Fabio Sartori

    as Gabriele Adorno
  • Ernesto Panariello

    as Pietro
  • Alisa Zinovjeva

    as Criada
  • Antonello Ceron

    as Capitán
  • Bruno Casoni

    as
Sound Daniel Barenboim Conductor
Sound Orchestra della Scala Musician
Writing Arrigo Boito Writer
Directing Federico Tiezzi Director
Writing Francesco Maria Piave Writer
Sound Giuseppe Verdi Original Music Composer