Name: Simon Boccanegra
Start: 2010-04-16T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2010-05-07T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Teatro alla Scala

Organization

Baritone

Plácido Domingo

Simon Boccanegra

Andrzej Dobber

Bass

Ferruccio Furlanetto

Jacopo Fiesco

Soprano

Anja Harteros

Amelia Grimaldi

Ailyn Pérez

Tenor

Fabio Sartori

Gabriele Adorno

Stefano Secco

Massimo Cavalletti

Paolo Albiani

Ernesto Panariello

Pietro

Conductor

Daniel Barenboim

Stage director

Federico Tiezzi

Set designer

Maurizio Balò

Costume designer

Giovanna Buzzi

Lighting designer

A. J. Weissbard

Teatro alla Scala

Milan

Italy

Simon Boccanegra does not often get the same kind of publicity as many of Verdi's other popular operas, perhaps because of the complexity of its libretto. Premiered in 1857 at Venice's Teatro La Fenice, it underwent many revisions thereafter—and its revised version, first performed in 1881 at Milan's La Scala, met with greater success. Plácido Domingo's triumphant return to his baritone roots (his first debut with the Mexican National Opera, in 1959, was as a baritone), is captured in this stunning Teatro alla Scala's 2010 production of Verdi's Simon Boccanegra. Domingo is joined by Anja Harteros, Ferruccio Furlanetto and Fabio Sartori in this Daniel Barenboim conducted performance, directed by Federico Tiezzi.

Simon Boccanegra Verdi

Approved

Production booklet

Further reading