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The ambiguities of Verdi’s theatre are particularly clear in his baritone roles, among which is that of Boccanegra, corsair turned doge of Genoa and the troubled observer of the conflicts that tore apart 14th century landowners and peasants. An eminently political opera in which power struggles are interwoven with family conflicts, Simon Boccanegra echoes the life of its composer – the man who championed the cause of Italian unification and overcame the loss of his wife and children. Calixto Bieito, that most Shakespearean of opera directors, brings humanism and truth to a work haunted by gleaming images of the sea.

Opera in three acts (1881)
Music / Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto / Francesco Maria Piave, Arrigo Boito
After Antonio Garcia Guttiérrez
Conductor / Fabio Luisi
Director / Calixto Bieito
Sets / Susanne Gschwender
Costumes / Ingo Krügler
Lighting design / Michael Bauer
Video / Sarah Derendinger
Chorus master / José Luis Basso
Paris Opera Orchestra and Chorus
Presented by Alain Duault
Simon Boccanegra / Ludovic Tézier
Jacopo Fiesco / Mika Kares
Maria Boccanegra (Amelia Grimaldi) / Maria Agresta
Gabriele Adorno / Francesco Demuro
Paolo Albani / Nicola Alaimo
Pietro / Mikhail Timoshenko
Un capitano dei balestrieri / Cyrille Lovighi
Un'ancella di Amelia / Virginia Leva-Poncet
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