Simon Boccanegra
From: Wednesday, 8th June 2011
To: Saturday, 9 July 2011
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Synopsis
A tale of public feuds and private griefs, set against a backdrop of civil war, Simon Boccanegra is revered as one of Verdi's most sublime, mature masterpieces.
Featuring a major role for the ENO Chorus, the opera is conducted by ENO's Olivier Award-winning Music Director, Edward Gardner. Award-winning young Russian director/designer Dmitri Tcherniakov makes his ENO debut with a production that launches a new partnership between ENO and the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich.
Leading Verdi baritone Bruno Caproni (ENO's magisterial Nabucco) sings the title-role of the privateer-turned-politician, with Rena Harms (Amelia) Brindley Sherratt (Fiesco) and Peter Auty (Adorno).
Our Review:
9 June 2011
Edward Gardner, English National Opera’s dynamic young Music Director (though at 37 he must be growing weary of the ‘young’ epithet), proves his mettle as a conductor of Verdi with this orchestrally lustrous reading of Simon Boccanegra. It may be the composer’s most intricate score – it’s certainly his most symphonically textured – yet close your eyes and the sound that emanates from the Coliseum pit is that of a world-class orchestra being guided by the sure hand of a master.
There are other reasons to close one’s eyes during this production of a tale whose 25-year span covers three generations of internecine strife, both filial and political. The young Russian director Dmitri Tcherniakov updates the story, muddies the location and stretches the timescale so that the Prologue unfolds in a Hopper-esque 1960s precinct , after which all that follows is grey-chic present day. (That would make our young heroine Am...
Latest User Review
kittykatisha - 8 July 2011:
The singing and music was good but I didn't get it... I disagree that the plot made more sense in it's modern day setting - Italy is unified now - no longer full of warring states - and why then not update the language too - why sing about swords when they are carrying guns?? And who, these days, worries about phantoms? As for the anachronisms... It was a laugh, though for all the wrong reasons. Very glad I had a WOS bargain ticket and didn't pay full price.......
Cast
Bruno Caproni (Simon Boccanegra)
Brindley Sherratt (Jacopo Fiesco)
Peter Auty (Gabriele Adorno)
Roland Wood (Paolo Albiani)
Creative
Verdi (Music)
English National Opera (Producer)
Bayerische Staatsoper Munich (Producer)
Edward Gardner (Conductor)
Dmitri Tcherniakov (Director)
Dmitri Tcherniakov (Design)
Gleb Filshtinsky (Lighting)
James Fenton (Translation)
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