Doom and gloom in 14th-century Genoa, painted in monochromatic colours by a composer whose resulting opera was a total failure: this is hardly obvious material for a celebration. But as a highlight of ...

Simon Boccanegra premiered at La Fenice in 1857, and centres on a Genovese doge’s loosening grip on power and his reunion ...

Tickets are from €32 to €175. 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 ...

“Simon Boccanegra,” a story of fathers, politics, love and duty, is returning to La Scala, where personal connections to the opera run deep. By David Belcher Fathers and history loom large, both ...

Giuseppe Verdi composed the first version of the opera to commission for Venice’s Teatro La Fenice. The author of the libretto was Francesco Maria Piave, who worked with Verdi on Macbeth, La traviata, ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Opera Philadelphia is staging its fifth Festival O, and it includes Verdi's sweeping Simon Boccanegra. "It's actually the first time in 40 years that this opera is coming to ...

On Saturday, the high-definition broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera will be Giuseppe Verdi's "Simon Boccanegra." The performance begins at noon at the Town Plaza Cinema in Cape Girardeau. This is ...

So absorbing is Simon Boccanegra that it’s easy to forget we’re watching an opera. Verdi’s moving tale of paternity and politics is a remarkable fusion of music and drama, and it hurtles forward with ...

This new studio recording of Simon Boccanegra, the first in a decade, comes from Marina Rebeka’s own label Prima Classic.