Giuseppe Verdi
from 12 March to 03 April 2024
Although not the best-known of Verdi’s operas, Simon Boccanegra was one of his favourites, to the extent that he extensively reworked it 24 years after its Venice premiere in 1857. What a destiny Simon Boccanegra enjoyed! This former privateer, elected doge of Genoa, wishes to re-establish peace within his Council, divided between patricians and plebeians, and peace with Venice, the eternal rival. But this humanist is also consumed by the loss of his..