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Simon Boccanegra

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Simon Boccanegra

GIUSEPPE VERDI (1813-1901)

Opera in one prologue and three acts

Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave and Arrigo Boito

Season 2017-18

Duration: 2h30

Incl. 1 intermission

Amelia, who disappeared as a child, finally finds her father 25 years later.

Simon Boccanegra, doge of Genoa, finds his daughter, who has been missing for twenty-five years, in the house of his enemy Fiesco. Between the conflicts that plague the country and the misunderstandings that reign between those who surround him, the doge’s life is at risk. As he lays dying after being poisoned, the doge explains to all that Amelia is both his daughter and Fiesco’s granddaughter, easing tensions. He designates Gabriele, his daughter’s lover, as his successor, before he falls asleep forever.

Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave and Arrigo Boito
Second version : first performed in Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 24 March 1881
Éditions G. Ricordi & Co. Bühnen- und Musikverlag GmbH, Berlin

New production Opéra de Lausanne, in Co-Production with Théâtre National Slovène Maribor and Fondazione Lirico Sinfonica Petruzzelli e Teatri di Bari

Simon Boccanegra Roberto Frontali
Amelia Maria Katzarava
Jacopo Fiesco George Andguladze
Gabriele Adorno Andeka Gorrotxategi
Paolo Albiani Benoît Capt
Pietro Alexandre Diakoff
Capitano Tristan Blanchet
Servant Myriam Bouhzada

Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne
Opéra de Lausanne Choir prepared by Salvo Sgrò

Conductor Stefano Ranzani
Director and set designer Arnaud Bernard
Costume designer Marianna Stránská
Lighting designer Patrick Méeüs
Assistant director Angela Saroglou
Assistant set designer Virgile Koering
Assistant costume designer Kamila Sarkova