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05/02/2011

Verdi's Simon Boccanegra

BBC Radio 3 - Opera on 3, Live from the Met, Verdi's Simon Boccanegra

James Levine conducts Verdi's opera Simon Boccanegra, featuring Dmitri Hvorotovsky.

From the Metropolitan Opera, New York, James Levine conducts Verdi's opera Simon Boccanegra, featuring Barbara Frittoli, Ferruccio Furlanetto and Ramon Vargas.

Dmitri Hvorostovsky stars in Verdi's Simon Boccanegra, live from the Met, conducted by James Levine. Barbara Frittoli sings Amelia, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Fiesco, and Ramón Vargas, Adorno.

In fourteenth-century Genoa, there is a conspiracy afoot to overthrow the aristocracy. Popular former pirate Simon Boccanegra will be made doge, but this public success is complicated by a private tragedy involving an illegitimate child he had by the daughter of a nobleman. 


Presented by Margaret Juntwait with guest commentator Ira Siff.

Simon Boccanegra, a corsair ..... Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Baritone)
Maria Boccanegra, his daughter, aka Amelia ..... Barbara Frittoli (Soprano)
Jacopo Fiesco, a Genoese nobleman ..... Ferruccio Furlanetto (Bass)
Gabriele Adorno, a Genoese gentleman ..... Ramón Vargas (Tenor)
Paolo Albiani, a goldsmith ..... Nicola Alaimo (Bass)
Pietro, a Genoese popular leader ..... Richard Bernstein (Baritone)
Captain of the Crossbowmen ..... Adam Laurence Herskowitz (Tenor)
Amelia's maid ..... Edyta Kulczak (Mezzo-soprano)

James Levine ..... Conductor
Chorus and Orchestra of Metropolitan Opera.

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