FULL Simon Boccanegra La Fenice in Japan 2001 Antonio Salvadori, Serena Farnocchia, Ayk Martirossian
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Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Simon Boccanegra
- Composer: Verdi Giuseppe
- Libretto: Francesco Maria Piave (first version) Arrigo Boito (second version) Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Japan, Teatro La Fenice
- Recorded: 2001
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Antonio Salvadori, Serena Farnocchia, Ayk Martirossian, Francesco Grollo, Marco Vratogna, Paolo Rumetz
- Conductor: Renato Palumbo regia scene e costumi
- Orchestra: Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice
- Chorus: Giovanni Andreoli
- Chorus Master: Coro del Teatro La Fenice
- Stage Director: Elio De Capitani
- Stage Designer: Carlo Sala
- Costume Designer: Carlo Sala
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Teatro La Fenice
- Date Published: 2023
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Simon Boccanegra (Italian: [siˈmom ˌbokkaˈneːɡra]) is an opera with a prologue and three acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on the play Simón Bocanegra (1843) by Antonio García Gutiérrez, whose play El trovador had been the basis for Verdi’s 1853 opera, Il trovatore.
Simon Boccanegra was first performed at Teatro La Fenice in Venice on 12 March 1857. Given the complications of the original plot and the generally poor popular response – although the critical one was more encouraging – the opera dropped out of favour after 1866. Finally, 23 years later, Verdi’s publisher persuaded the composer to revise the opera, with text changes to be prepared by Arrigo Boito, the librettist who aspired to work with the aging composer on a project which eventually became a new opera, Otello, but to which Verdi had not totally committed at that time.
The revised version of Simon Boccanegra, with the now-famous Council Chamber scene, was first performed at La Scala in Milan on 24 March 1881. It is this version which is the one most frequently performed today.
Quoted from Wikipedia