Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
Abbado wholly vindicates Verdi’s intentions through his feeling for the shape of a whole scene, for the inherent subtleties of Verdi’s scoring and for certain rhythmic effects.
Casts & Crew
Piero Cappuccilli
Simon Boccanegra
Nicolai Ghiaurov
Jacopo Fiesco
Mirella Freni
Amelia Grimaldi
Veriano Luchetti
Gabriele Adorno
Felice Schiavi
Paolo Albiani
Claudio Abbado
Conductor
Also Directed by Giorgio Strehler
Diana Damrau, Ildebrando D'Arcangelo, Pietro Spagnoli, Marcella Orsatti Talamanca, and Monica Bacelli star in this La Scala production of the Mozart opera conducted by Gerard Korsten and directed by Giorgio Strehler.
Live from Teatro alla Scala 1987.
Also Directed by André Flédérick
Mr. Bennett is a model citizen, a tender father and an irreproachable husband, he yearns for a quiet life. On a weekend he receives a visit from a strange man called Pédro Juarez. Mr. Bennett’s past suddenly resurfaces and his peaceful existence is turned upside down ...
Based, in part, on Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor, Falstaff is Verdi's last work for the stage - and only his second comic opera. And yet the humour in this multilayered masterpiece is distinctly wry, for all the main characters exhibit an array of human weaknesses that are implacably exposed by Verdi and his librettist Arrigo Boito.
