Tickets are from €32 to €175. Although not the best-known of Verdi's operas, Simon Boccanegra was one of his favourites, to the extent that he extensively reworked it 24 years after its Venice ...
The two opera giants of the nineteenth century, Verdi and Wagner, both celebrate their 200th anniversary in 2013. For Verdi, we will be celebrating this by performing his much-loved Simon Boccanegra.
San Francisco Opera has announced details of its 104th season, and General Director Matthew Shilvock is feeling proud of what’s coming. The season, set to run Sept. 12 through June 25, 2027, has a ...
“Simon Boccanegra,” a story of fathers, politics, love and duty, is returning to La Scala, where personal connections to the opera run deep. By David Belcher Fathers and history loom large, both ...
They’ve opened in St George’s Hall, Bradford, as an early highspot of the “City of Culture” year there, rather than in their home base of Leeds, and it will go on to Nottingham, Gateshead, Liverpool, ...
On Saturday, the high-definition broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera will be Giuseppe Verdi's "Simon Boccanegra." The performance begins at noon at the Town Plaza Cinema in Cape Girardeau. This is ...
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Opera Philadelphia is staging its fifth Festival O, and it includes Verdi's sweeping Simon Boccanegra. "It's actually the first time in 40 years that this opera is coming to ...
Doom and gloom in 14th-century Genoa, painted in monochromatic colours by a composer whose resulting opera was a total failure: this is hardly obvious material for a celebration. But as a highlight of ...
When this sumptuous production by Giancarlo del Monaco opened in 1995, legendary tenor Plácido Domingo gave a riveting performance as the fiery revolutionary Gabriele Adorno, a tenor part. In the 2010 ...