It's Christmas Eve and we are going to go celebrate being young and being alive.

In an approach to one of Verdi’s greatest operas which relies almost entirely upon Verdi’s music and concentrates on a clear statement of the libretto, James Conway delivers a major lesson to the ...

Simon Boccanegra, a former pirate and victorious Admiral of the Genoese fleet, had seduced Maria, the daughter of the prestigious patrician Fiesco. From this connection, daughter was given an old ...

What he really wanted was to spend Thanksgiving with his family. What he got was three days with the turkey.

The corsair Simon Boccanegra has been elected Doge of Genoa thanks to the assistance of Paolo Albiani. He hopes that in this position the patrician Jacopo Fiesco will no longer be able to refuse him ...

The title character, with his complex relationships with rivals and his long-lost daughter, is one of the summits of the baritone repertoire. The opera’s complicated story and dark tone have proven ...

De première van Giuseppe Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra in 1857 flopte. Het publiek liep maar niet warm voor het politieke drama met in de hoofdrol de doge van Genua, die met zijn verloren dochter wordt ...

“Simon Boccanegra,” a story of fathers, politics, love and duty, is returning to La Scala, where personal connections to the opera run deep. By David Belcher Fathers and history loom large, both ...

Dimitri Hvorostovsky (Simon Boccanegra); Olga Guryakova (Amelia); Marco Berti (Gabriele Adorno); Raymond Aceto (Fiesco); Patrick Carfizzi (Paolo); Ryan McKinny (Pietro) Hvorostovsky has appeared ...