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Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

80 %|Mar 14, 2018|Music, Drama, History

A tragic tale in which love and filial sentiment battle in a political intrigue around the fascinating character of Simon, a privateer become doge: Simon Boccanegra is one of Verdi’s greatest operas, over which floats the shadow of his admiration for Shakespeare. For this captivating and moving score, the Dijon Bourgogne Orchestra has called upon one of the great Verdi specialists, Roberto Rizzi Brignoli, whose Traviata in 2011 demonstrated his intimate and precise knowledge of the Italian master’s style, and the German stage director Philipp Himmelmann, a regular at Unter den Linden in Berlin and the great European stages.

Featured Crew

Giuseppe Verdi
Original Music Composer
Étienne Pluss
Production Design
Philipp Himmelmann
Director
Francesco Maria Piave
Writer
Arrigo Boito
Writer
Roberto Rizzi Brignoli
Conductor
Franck Chaudemanche
Director

Cast

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Keri Alkema
Amelia Grimaldi
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Vittorio Vitelli
Simon Boccanegra
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Gianluca Terranova
Gabriele Adorno