Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra
(Dan Rest/Lyric Opera of Chicago)
The summer season of broadcasts from the Lyric Opera of Chicago begins with Verdi's epic drama.
The intriguing plot unfolds in the incendiary atmosphere of 14th-century Genoa. The music, both hair-raisingly dramatic and sublimely beautiful, illuminates explosive, primary-color emotion — love, jealousy, rage, remorse.
At the center is the noble and desperately conflicted Boccanegra, Doge of Genoa, his violent conflict with his enemy, the nobleman Fiesco, and their reconciliation.
In the title role is baritone Thomas Hampson, who considers Simon Boccanegra "truly one of the greatest operas ever written."
Ferruccio Furlanetto plays Boccanegra’s arch enemy, Fiesco; Bulgarian soprano Krassimira Stoyanova is Amelia; and Frank Lopardo is Adorno. Sir Andrew Davis conducts.
CAST:
Boccanegra Thomas Hampson
Fiesco Ferruccio Furlanetto
Amelia Krassimira Stoyanova
Adorno Frank Lopardo
Paolo Quinn Kelsey
Pietro Evan Boyer
CONDUCTOR: Sir Andrew Davis
STAGE DIRECTOR: Elijah Moshinsky
LYRIC OPERA ORCHESTRA & CHORUS
CHORUS MASTER: Martin Wright
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The producer for my New Life Expo concert has just on the internet newlifeexpo.com announced a change in date for my October concert from October 19th to October 26th at the New Yorker Hotel. The entire event, spanning three days, was changed to one week later at the same hotel.
True to his innate concern for civility, liberty, humanistic relationships and a cry for understanding others' points of view VERDI's operas do not exist for one era only but their beauty and messages will stand for all time. His constructs cover the entire range of emotions and, seemingly, all kinds of stories, personal, political and artistic, even allowing the weather to comment as in the fourth act of Rigoletto. The cast is well-selected particularly
Thomas Hampson and Ferruccio Furlanetto with the astute maestro Sir Andrew Davis and the expectation from the past record of authentic enlightened dramaturgy of Elijah Moshinsky.
This opera has its moments but unfortunately, no one is humming the tunes.
Nice cast.
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