Staatsoper Unter den Linden

Simon Boccanegra

Opera

Unter den Linden 7, 10117 Berlin

by Giuseppe Verdi

Monika Rittershaus
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Monika Rittershaus
© Monika Rittershaus
Monika Rittershaus
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Monika Rittershaus
© Monika Rittershaus
Monika Rittershaus
© Monika Rittershaus
Monika Rittershaus
© Monika Rittershaus
Monika Rittershaus
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Monika Rittershaus
© Monika Rittershaus
Monika Rittershaus
© Monika Rittershaus

Description

Verdi's Simon Boccanegra is a particularly bold work, hardly comparable to his other operas. The composer has designed and created a real musical drama, with high-profile characters and striking solo, duet and ensemble scenes, generally in dark colors. The story of the Genoese Doge Simon Boccanegra, a real person from the 14th century, who has to assert himself politically both internally and externally and is also confronted with a family secret, is brought to life.

First staged at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice in 1857, Verdi took the work back to his composing workshop many years later and decisively reshaped it in many passages with the help of his librettist Arrigo Boito, who would later write the libretti for the two astonishing late works Otello and Falstaff. But even Simon Boccanegra, in the revised version from 1881 performed at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, is a work of pointed musical expression and great emotion.

Cast

Giuseppe Verdi
Composer
Eun Sun Kim
Musical Director
Federico Tiezzi
Director
Caroline Staunton
Revival director, assistant director
Maurizio Balò
Set Design
Giovanna Buzzi
Costumes
A. J. Weissbard
Light
Studio Azzurro
Video
Ludovic Tézier
Simon Boccanegra
Elena Stikhina
Amelia Grimaldi
Marko Mimica
Jacopo Fiesco
Fabio Sartori
Gabriele Adorno
Alfredo Daza
Paolo Albiani
Friedrich Hamel
Pietro
Junho Hwang
Ein Hauptmann der Bogenschützen
Maria Kokareva
Eine Magd Amelias
Staatsopernchor
Staatskapelle Berlin
Francesco Maria Piave
Author

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