Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

Mariotti, Michele;
Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna;
Frontali, Roberto;
Giannattasio, Carmen;
Prestia, Giacomo

DVD 101308

Shifting marble walls, a mosaic floor, a barren tree in the center of the stage, tasteful costumes - this production does not need much more to impress with a young ensemble and a grandiose terrific Roberto Frontali as Simon Boccanegra. The Italian baritone is a guest at the opera houses: from the Metropolitan Opera and La Scala in Milan to the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, from the Zurich Opera House to the Berlin State Opera and Dresden Semperoper. Michele Mariotti, Born in 1979 and already chief conductor in Bologna, leads the ensemble with bravura. Simon Boccanegra is certainly not one of Verdi's best-known operas. The composer also worked on this opera several times first performed in Venice in 1857, but the new version did not have its premiere until 1881. And if not Verdi's "public piece" par excellence, it is nevertheless one of the composer's most beautiful creations Composer.

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13-09-2010

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