Simon Boccanegra

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VENICE—Luca Salsi glowered and lurched his way around the stage, clutching his hand to his chest as he geared up for his death scene in “Simon Boccanegra,” Verdi’s opera about a pirate who becomes ruler of Genoa.

From The Wall Street Journal

As Salsi completed his performance in “Simon Boccanegra,” some in the crowd threw hundreds of flyers from the upper circle to waft their way into the stalls, each bearing a line from the poet John Keats: “Beauty is truth, truth is beauty.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Much of the challenge of “Simon Boccanegra” is the plotline, which has a poignant father-daughter relationship at its core.

From New York Times

But the 1971 production is seen by many as a late triumph for “Simon Boccanegra.”

From New York Times

Fathers and history loom large, both onstage and off, in the new La Scala staging of the Verdi opera “Simon Boccanegra,” running in Milan for seven performances from Feb. 1 to 24.

From New York Times