Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

Music, Drama, History

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Carlo Battistoni

Status Released

Release Date 2002-06-04

Storyline

Giuseppe Verdi's one prologue, three act opera featuring libretto by Francesco Maria Piave and Arrigo Boito is performed before a live audience at Florence's Teatro Comunale in this release featuring the music of the Orchestra and Chorus of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino under conductor Claudio Abbado, and starring Carlo Guelfi, Julian Konstantinov, and Karita Mattila.

"A tale of intrigue, rebellion, betrayal, assassination and passion."