Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
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.
About Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (2018)
Released in 2018, Verdi: Simon Boccanegra is a music, drama and history film from Opéra de Dijon (France). It was directed by Franck Chaudemanche and Philipp Himmelmann and written by Francesco Maria Piave and Arrigo Boito. The cast is led by Keri Alkema, Vittorio Vitelli, Luciano Batinić, Gianluca Terranova and Armando Noguera. With a runtime of 2h 20m, the film averages 8.0/10 across 1 TMDB ratings.
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