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Simon Boccanegra George Petean als Simon Boccanegra, Michael Bachtadze als Paolo Albiani |
Simon Boccanegra Michael Bachtadze als Paolo Albiani |
Simon Boccanegra George Petean als Simon Boccanegra, Maria Motolygina als Maria / Amelia |
Simon Boccanegra George Petean als Simon Boccanegra |
Simon Boccanegra George Petean als Simon Boccanegra, Attilio Glaser als Gabriele Adorno, Maria Motolygina als Maria / Amelia |
Simon Boccanegra George Petean als Simon Boccanegra, Liang Li als Jacopo Fiesco |
Simon Boccanegra Michael Bachtadze als Paolo Albiani, Maria Motolygina als Maria / Amelia, Attilio Glaser als Gabriele Adorno, George Petean als Simon Boccanegra |
Simon Boccanegra George Petean als Simon Boccanegra |
Simon Boccanegra Liang Li als Jacopo Fiesco, Maria Motolygina als Maria / Amelia, Attilio Glaser als Gabriele Adorno, George Petean als Simon Boccanegra |
Simon Boccanegra Attilio Glaser als Gabriele Adorno, Maria Motolygina als Maria / Amelia, George Petean als Simon Boccanegra |
Simon Boccanegra George Petean als Simon Boccanegra, Maria Motolygina als Maria / Amelia, Attilio Glaser als Gabriele Adorno, Liang Li als Jacopo Fiesco |
Simon Boccanegra Liang Li als Jacopo Fiesco, Maria Motolygina als Maria / Amelia, Attilio Glaser als Gabriele Adorno, George Petean als Simon Boccanegra, Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin |
Simon Boccanegra George Petean als Simon Boccanegra |
Simon Boccanegra u. a. Attilio Glaser als Gabriele Adorno |
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Simon Boccanegra
Deutsche Oper Berlin
Duration: 3 hrs / with interval
Event location
Deutsche Oper Berlin Bismarckstraße 35 10627 Berlin [ Charlottenburg ] www.deutscheoperberlin.de Giuseppe Verdi [1813 – 1901]
On the work
The Republic of Genoa is split into two camps headed by their respective arch rivals, Simon Boccanegra and Fiesco, who have been at loggerheads for decades. Yet the two men are connected by a long-dead woman – Fiesco’s daughter, the lover of Simon – who bore Simon a daughter named Amelia, who in turn vanished into care as an infant. When Amelia reappears 25 years later, she becomes a pawn in a power struggle that eventually claims Simon. The original version of SIMON BOCCANEGRA, which premiered in 1857, is one of Verdi’s explorations ...
The Republic of Genoa is split into two camps headed by their respective arch rivals, Simon Boccanegra and Fiesco, who have been at loggerheads for decades. Yet the two men are connected by a long-dead woman – Fiesco’s daughter, the lover of Simon – who bore Simon a daughter named Amelia, who in turn vanished into care as an infant. When Amelia reappears 25 years later, she becomes a pawn in a power struggle that eventually claims Simon. The original version of SIMON BOCCANEGRA, which premiered in 1857, is one of Verdi’s explorations ...
On the work
The Republic of Genoa is split into two camps headed by their respective arch rivals, Simon Boccanegra and Fiesco, who have been at loggerheads for decades. Yet the two men are connected by a long-dead woman – Fiesco’s daughter, the lover of Simon – who bore Simon a daughter named Amelia, who in turn vanished into care as an infant. When Amelia reappears 25 years later, she becomes a pawn in a power struggle that eventually claims Simon. The original version of SIMON BOCCANEGRA, which premiered in 1857, is one of Verdi’s explorations into the dichotomy between public actions and private urges. Here, the stark differences between the two old men, Simon and Fiesco, set the stage for suspicion, conspiracy and assassination – with little prospect of a happy end. And not even the victory of one side can guarantee a lasting peace.
This gloomy outlook, enhanced by Verdi in his reworked version of 1881 – our production -, is perhaps one of the reasons why SIMON BOCCANEGRA remains less of an audience favourite than the popular operas of the 1850s such as IL TROVATORE and UN BALLO IN MASCHERA – and this despite a portrayal of Simon and Fiesco as haunting and melodious as that of any of Verdi’s other main characters.
On the production
Russian director Vasily Barkhatov, who made his debut in the Bismarckstrasse in 2017 with a well-received world premiere of Aribert Reimann’s L’INVISIBLE, focuses here on the corrupting effect of power. His Simon Boccanegra has lost sight of the political ideals that had fired him decades earlier and is now only interested in protecting his position. And just as Verdi was fully cognizant of the political factions and intrigues in the burgeoning nation-state of Italy, so Barkhatov sees parallels between the drama of the Genoese Doge and power constellations that are still encountered today.
The Republic of Genoa is split into two camps headed by their respective arch rivals, Simon Boccanegra and Fiesco, who have been at loggerheads for decades. Yet the two men are connected by a long-dead woman – Fiesco’s daughter, the lover of Simon – who bore Simon a daughter named Amelia, who in turn vanished into care as an infant. When Amelia reappears 25 years later, she becomes a pawn in a power struggle that eventually claims Simon. The original version of SIMON BOCCANEGRA, which premiered in 1857, is one of Verdi’s explorations into the dichotomy between public actions and private urges. Here, the stark differences between the two old men, Simon and Fiesco, set the stage for suspicion, conspiracy and assassination – with little prospect of a happy end. And not even the victory of one side can guarantee a lasting peace.
This gloomy outlook, enhanced by Verdi in his reworked version of 1881 – our production -, is perhaps one of the reasons why SIMON BOCCANEGRA remains less of an audience favourite than the popular operas of the 1850s such as IL TROVATORE and UN BALLO IN MASCHERA – and this despite a portrayal of Simon and Fiesco as haunting and melodious as that of any of Verdi’s other main characters.
On the production
Russian director Vasily Barkhatov, who made his debut in the Bismarckstrasse in 2017 with a well-received world premiere of Aribert Reimann’s L’INVISIBLE, focuses here on the corrupting effect of power. His Simon Boccanegra has lost sight of the political ideals that had fired him decades earlier and is now only interested in protecting his position. And just as Verdi was fully cognizant of the political factions and intrigues in the burgeoning nation-state of Italy, so Barkhatov sees parallels between the drama of the Genoese Doge and power constellations that are still encountered today.
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Event location
Deutsche Oper Berlin Bismarckstraße 35 10627 Berlin [ Charlottenburg ] www.deutscheoperberlin.de Event location - Conductor
- Director
- Set design
- Costume design
- Light design
- Video
- Chorus-Master
- Dramaturgy
- Simon Boccanegra
- Jacopo Fiesco
- Paolo Albiani
- Pietro
- Maria / Amelia
- Gabriele Adorno
- Captain
- A maidservant
- Orchestra
- Chorus
