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Conway has had a go at sharpening the opera’s dramatic and political intensity by relocating the action of Boccanegra to modern times (just as his Donizetti The Siege of Calais seeks affinities with ...

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So where's a director when all these people need him? The stage still looks fine - Michael Yeargan’s airy columnar set, open to the sky, shows an elegantly spare marble interior of a Genoese palazzo - ...

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Simon Boccanegra 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, ...

Simon Boccanegra 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, ...

On Saturday, the high-definition broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera will be Giuseppe Verdi's "Simon Boccanegra." The performance begins at noon at the Town Plaza Cinema in Cape Girardeau. This is ...

“Simon Boccanegra,” a story of fathers, politics, love and duty, is returning to La Scala, where personal connections to the opera run deep. By David Belcher Fathers and history loom large, both ...