Simon Boccanegra

Production de 2018 - Calixto Bieito

• Conductor

  Thomas Hengelbrock; Alessandro Di Stefano

• Music

  Giuseppe Verdi
  (1813 - 1901)

• Libretto

  Francesco Maria Piave

• Libretto

  Arrigo Boito

• Director

  Calixto Bieito

• Set design

  Susanne Gschwender

• Costume design

  Ingo Krügler

• Lighting design

  Michael Bauer

• Video

  Sarah Derendinger

Although not the best-known of Verdi's operas, Simon Boccanegra was one of his favourites, to the extent that he extensively reworked it 24 years after its Venice premiere in 1857. What a destiny Simon Boccanegra enjoyed! This former privateer, elected doge of Genoa, wishes to re-establish peace within his Council, divided between patricians and plebeians, and peace with Venice, the eternal rival. But this humanist is also consumed by the loss of his daughter, kidnapped as a child. In this intimate political drama, the composer no doubt found echoes of his own life, having contributed to Italian unification and lost his first two children. Musically speaking, Verdi created a character of great psychological depth. A complexity emphasised in Calixto Bieito's production, which plunges us into Simon's thoughts, not forgetting an evocation of the sea - the only place where the seaman was truly happy – in the form of the hull of a huge ship.

Paris Opera Orchestra and Chorus
A coproduction with the Deutsche Oper, Berlin

Simon Boccanegra

Production de 2018 - Calixto Bieito

• Simon Boccanegra

  Ludovic Tézier

• Maria Boccanegra (Amelia Grimaldi)

  Selene Zanetti

• Jacopo Fiesco

  Mika Kares

• Gabriele Adorno

  Charles Castronovo

• Paolo Albiani

  Étienne Dupuis

• Pietro

  Alejandro Baliñas Vieites

• Un capitano dei Balestrieri

  Paolo Bondi

• Un'ancella di Amelia

  Marianne Chandelier