About the production
- Run time: 3hrs 00min, 1 intermission
- Sung in: Italian
- Subtitles: English, German and other languages
- Opera house: Vienna State Opera
Marco Armiliato leads the Vienna State Opera Orchestra in one of Verdi’s most atmospheric scores, with Luca Salsi in the title role of the Doge of Genoa. Kwangchul Youn is his nemesis, the noble Fiesco, who is reconciled with Boccanegra just before the Doge’s death. Federica Lombardi sings Amelia, Boccanegra’s daughter and Fiesco’s granddaughter, and Freddie De Tommaso is her lover, Gabriele Adorno, Boccanegra’s political enemy-turned-supporter.
Ticket information
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Vienna State Opera
Opernring 2, 1010 Vienna View in Google Maps
How to get there:
Subway: U1, U2, U4 to Karlsplatz
Trams: 1, 2, D, 62, 71 to Opernring
Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901) is the preeminent Italian opera composer of the 19th century. His works remain immensely popular today, and are at the core of the opera repertoire.
Simon Boccanegra is based on a play of the same name by the Spanish dramatist Antonio García Gutiérrez (1813–1884).
The libretto for the original version of the opera was by Francesco Maria Piave (1810–1876), Verdi’s principal librettist during his extremely successful and productive middle period (1849-1859). While the 1857 premiere of Simon Boccanegra was not a success, 20 years later Verdi revised the score and libretto with writer Arrigo Boito (1842–1918), who later wrote the librettos for Otello and Falstaff.
