Simon Boccanegra

With the return of Simon Boccanegra to The Royal Opera, Plácido Domingo makes his Royal Opera baritone debut in one of Verdi’s most demanding and passionate roles. Set against the class driven battle for the control of 14th-century Genoa, the opera sympathetically portrays the embattled Doge of the city as the consequences of his past lead – through an estranged daughter, her competing suitors and a life-long enemy – to his own death. The Music Director of The Royal Opera, Antonio Pappano, conducts a formidable international cast in the 1881 version of the opera, staged in Elijah Moshinsky’s classic production. The tones of fine period painting appropriate to the story create rich stage images, matching the rich orchestral colour of Verdi’s score of melody and atmosphere. Confrontations and curses, public drama and private turmoil – and running through it all is the poignant situation of a father and daughter, long parted yet rediscovering each other when it is too late for anything but tragedy to be the outcome. It all makes for a potent operatic combination of family drama and political intrigue.

Simon Boccanegra - Rehearsal
The Simon Boccanegra Rehearsal is the performance on 26 June.

There has been an unprecedented demand for tickets for performances of Simon Boccanegra and we were unable to allocate seats to all the Friends who tried to book. To ensure that as many Friends as possible are able to see the production, if you have already booked tickets for a performance, you will not be able to book tickets for the rehearsal during Friends’ priority booking.

PERFORMERS

Conductor
Antonio Pappano

Simon Boccanegra
Plácido Domingo

Amelia
Marina Poplavskaya

Fiesco
Ferruccio Furlanetto

Gabriele Adorno
Joseph Calleja

Paolo
Jonathan Summers

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