20:00

' SIMON BOCCANEGRA'

Thu 29^th Oct 1959, 20:00 on Third Programme

Opera in a Prologue and Three Acts
Libretto by Piave and Boito
MUSIC BY VERDI
Sung in Italian: on records
with the Chorus and Orchestra of the Rome Opera House
CONDUCTED BY GABRIELE SANTINI
The action takes place in and near Genoa about the middle of the fourteenth century.
Prologue: A Square
Act I
Scene 1: The garden of the Grimaldi palace outside the city
Scene 2: The council chamber in the Doge's palace

Contributors

Conducted By:: Gabriele Santini
SIMON BOCCANEGRA, a corsair in the service of the Genoese republic and later first plebeian Doge of Genoa (baritone):: Tito Gobbi
AMELIA GRIMALDI (Boccanegra's lost daughter, Maria) (soprano):: Victoria de Los Angeles
JACOPO Fresco, a Genoese nobleman (bass):: Boris Christoff
PAOLO ALBIANI, a gold spinner (baritone):: Walter Monachesi
PIETRO, his friend (baritone):: Paolo Dari
GABRIELE ADORNO, a Genoese gentle man (tenor):: Giuseppe Campora
A CAPTAIN of the militia (tenor):: Paolo Caroli
AMELIA'S MAID (soprano):: Silvia Bertona