Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

· 2017

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.

Starring

Giuseppe Verdi, Francesco Maria Piave, Ambrogio Maestri, Saimir Pirgu, Stefano Ranzani, Myrtò Papatanasiu, Sylvano Bussotti, Sylvano Bussotti, John Relyea

Director

Sylvano Bussotti