CAST:
Plácido Domingo (Simon
Boccanegra)
Ferruccio Furlanetto (Jacopo
Fiesco)
Anja Harteros & Adriana
Damato (Amelia)
Fabio Sartori (Gabriele
Adorno)
Massimo Cavalletti (Paolo
Albiani)
Ernesto Panariello (Pietro)
PRODUCTION TEAM:
Conductor: Daniel Barenboim
Staging: Federico Tiezzi
Sets: Maurizio Balò
Costumes: Giovanna Buzzi
Lights: AJ Weissbard
Running time:
TBA
Sung in Italian with English
subtitles
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Simon Boccanegra
is a story about politics and love—a
deadly combination. Simon Boccanegra
is the Doge of Genoa, but
twenty-five years earlier he
fathered a child with Marie, the
daughter of his then-political rival
Fiesco. Marie died while still
young, and their daughter
disappeared. Ever since Boccanegra
came to power, Fiesco has lived
under an assumed name out in the
country with his adopted daughter
Amelia. Amelia is actually
Boccanegra’s daughter, and thus
Fiesco’s granddaughter, but at first
neither man knows it. Fiesco
attempts to give her in marriage to
man she doesn’t love, but once
Boccanegra find out her true
identity, he lobbies to have her wed
to her true love, Gabriele, even
though Gabriele has been secretly
plotting against the Doge with the
exiled Fiesco. Gabriele and Fiesco
still do not know Amelia’s true
identity, so they continue with
their plans to kill the Doge.
Boccanegra is tricked into drinking
poison by one of Fiesco’s friends,
but shortly before he dies, Amelia’s
identity is revealed to Gabriele,
who begs the Doge for forgiveness.
The benevolent Boccanegra forgives
him and blesses the marriage of
Gabriele and Amelia. Soon, Fiesco
also finds out Amelia’s lineage, and
when the Doge dies, everyone—even
his former rivals—mourn the passing
of the great man. |
