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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Verdi: Simon BoccanegraProduction: Tito Capobianco & Video Director: Brian Large
Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Vasile Moldoveanu, Sherrill Milnes & Paul Plishka Metropolitan Opera, James Levine Live from the MET, December 1984 | 
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Tebaldi, Tucker, Guarrera, Tozzi, Flagello Metropolitan Opera, N. Verchi Recorded 1961 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Mirella Freni, Piero Cappuccilli, José van Dam, Nicolai Ghiaurov, José Carreras La Scala Chorus & Orchestra, Claudio Abbado | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Vladimir Chernov, Kiri Te Kanawa, Plácido Domingo, Robert Lloyd Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus, James Levine Subtitles in German, English, French, Italian, Spanish, Chinese | | DG - 0730319 (DVD Video) £19.99 (£17.01 ex. VAT) |
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| |  | Verdi: Simon BoccanegraLive from Bologna 2007Directed by Giorgio Gallione, Chorus Master Paolo Vero, Costume and Set Design by Guido Fiorato and Lighting Design By Daniele Naldi
Roberto Frontali, Carmen Giannattasio, Giacomo Prestia, Marco Vratogna, Alberto Rota, Enea Scala & Lucia Michelazzo Orchestra And Chorus of the Teatro Comunale Di Bologna, Michele Mariotti Sliding marble walls, a mosaic-like fl oor, a leafl ess tree centre-stage, elegant costumes
– with its young cast and a superlative performance by Roberto Frontali as Simon
Boccanegra, this production has all the ingredients to leave a lasting impression.
The Italian baritone is a regular guest at the world’s major opera houses, including the
Metropolitan Opera, La Scala Milan, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Zurich
Opera House, the Staatsoper Berlin and Dresden’s Semperoper. Born in 1979 and
already principal conductor in Bologna, Michele Mariotti directs the ensemble in a
bravura performance.
Simon Boccanegra is perhaps not one of Verdi’s best-known operas. The composer
himself returned to revise the work on several occasions. The original opera was
premiered in Venice in 1857, this revised version not until 1881. Although never
considered one of Verdi’s crowd pullers, it remains one of the composer’s most beautiful
creations. Verdi’s music underpins this human drama in all its surprising twists and
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Kiri Te Kanawa, Alexandru Agache, Michael Sylvesyer & Roberto Scandiuzzi Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| | Verdi: Simon BoccanegraWiener Staatsoper, 2002Stage Director: Peter Stein
Thomas Hampson, Cristina Gallardo-Domas, Ferruccio Furlanetto & Miroslav Dvorsky Chor und Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper, Daniele Gatti “visually alert, musically sensitive and disturbingly coherent“ (The Standard) | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Cesare Siepi & Leo Taubmann (piano) recorded live in Salzburg, 1956 | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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Leo Nucci (Simon Boccanegra), Paata Burchuladze (Fiesco), Kiri Te Kanawa (Maria/Amelia), Giacomo Aragall (Gabriele), Paolo Coni (Paolo) & Carlo Colombara (Pietro) Orchestra e coro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Sir Georg Solti "I certainly enjoyed my first hearing of the new performance ... the close and true Decca recording seems to suit this dark and taut work very well ... Paolo Coni makes a dark-toned and threatening Paolo (his voice is so firm and pleasing I would like to hear what he would have made of the title part) ... Aragall has done nothing better on record than this bitingly clear, really Italianate Gabriele: he catches very well the impetuous, headstrong nature of the young nobleman, and is also able to fine away his big voice to the needs of his love duet with Amelia ... Aragall's rightly fierce and heroic singing is very much of an asset on the new Decca set". Gramophone December 1989 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Renato Bruson, Roberto Scandiuzzi, Giuseppe Sabbatini Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Roberto Paternostro | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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