Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

“An Old School staging for Simon Boccanegra in Naples”

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November 9, 2017

2h 15m

Overview

The dashing corsair Simon Boccanegra and Maria, daughter of the nobleman Jacopo Fiesco, have fallen in love and had an illegitimate daughter. The child has disappeared from her foster-home. Boccanegra returns to Genoa to break the news to Maria, and learns of her death as a crowd, led by the plebeian Paolo Albiani, proclaim him Doge of Genoa. Performed at the Teatro di San Carlo, Torino on October 10th, 2017.

Director

Sylvano Bussotti

Writers

Francesco Maria Piave

Cast

Ambrogio Maestri

Simon Boccanegra

Saimir Pirgu

Gabriele Adorno

Myrtò Papatanasiu

Amelia

John Relyea

Jacopo Fiesco

Stefano Ranzani

Conductor