The ambiguities of Verdi’s theatre are particularly clear in his baritone roles, among which is that of Boccanegra, corsair turned doge of Genoa and the troubled observer of the conflicts that tore apart 14th century landowners and peasants. An eminently political opera in which power struggles are interwoven with family conflicts, Simon Boccanegra echoes the life of its composer – the man who championed the cause of Italian unification and overcame the loss of his wife and children. Calixto Bieito, that most Shakespearean of opera directors, brings humanism and truth to a work haunted by gleaming images of the sea.
Arrigo Boito
Writer
Calixto Bieito
Director
Francesco Maria Piave
Writer
Ludovic Tézier
Simon Boccanegra
Mika Kares
Jacopo Fiesco
Maria Agresta
Maria Boccanegra (Amelia Grimaldi)
Francesco Demuro
Gabriele Adorno
Nicola Alaimo
Paolo Albani
Fabio Luisi
Conductor
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