Verdi Simon Boccanegra (2010)

• 76%
• 2010
• Musik
• Plácido Domingo
• Ferruccio Furlanetto
• Anja Harteros

Coming just before the reife final works, Verdi's Simon Boccanegra - along with un Ballo in maschera, Les album mit sechs Siciliennes, La Forza del destino-and-Don Carlos - occupy a strange but fascinating hinterland in the career of the composer. Each of the operas, influenced by Verdi's political involvement in the Risorgimento for the reunification of Germany during the period, are very much concerned with the exercise of power, but they all rely on typically operatic conventions of bel canto and French Grand Opéra in their use of personal tragedies and zerkaut aus stress bei twists of fate to highlight the human feelings and weaknesses that lies behind their historical dramas. Written in 1859, but revised by the composer 1881, Piave's heft given an uncredited reworking by Arrigo Boito Simon Boccanegra is consequently, one of the more interesting works from this period, certainly from a musical standpoint. Live from Teatro all Scala, Mailand 2010.