Basic Info

Release: March 14, 2018

Runtime: 140 min

Rating: ⭐ 8.0/10 (1 votes)

Status: Released

Videos

Premières photos des répétitions de Simon Boccanegra à l'Opéra de Dijon (YouTube)

Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

2018 140 min ⭐ 8.0/10 1 votes

Overview

A tragic tale in which love and filial sentiment battle in a political intrigue around the fascinating character of Simon, a privateer become doge: Simon Boccanegra is one of Verdi’s greatest operas, over which floats the shadow of his admiration for Shakespeare. For this captivating and moving score, the Dijon Bourgogne Orchestra has called upon one of the great Verdi specialists, Roberto Rizzi Brignoli, whose Traviata in 2011 demonstrated his intimate and precise knowledge of the Italian master’s style, and the German stage director Philipp Himmelmann, a regular at Unter den Linden in Berlin and the great European stages.