DVD4Music.com: DVD: Verdi DVD : Simon Boccanegra - Opera DVD

You are currently in: Verdi DVD : Simon Boccanegra - Opera DVD - Verdi DVD : Simon Boccanegra

Title: Verdi DVD : Simon Boccanegra - Opera DVD - Verdi DVD : Simon Boccanegra

Artist: Carlo Guelfi, Julian Konstantinov, Karita Mattila

Composer: Giuseppe VERDI

Conductor: Claudio Abbado

Region: 0

Sound: 5.1 / DTS / Stereo

Screen Format: 16 : 9

Price: £22.95

Delivery is calculated on the Basket & Checkout pages

Online Shopping: To purchase this product use the section below

Further Details & Content:

Verdi DVD : Simon Boccanegra - Opera DVD - Verdi DVD : Simon Boccanegra

DVD Content

"Karita Mattila created an unusually vital character, genuinely in love with Adorno and strikingly heroic in defense of her father, the voice ringing out boldly in the council chamber scene. Carlo Guelfi proved a physically imposing and likable Boccanegra" www.operanews.com

The personal price of political success is the theme at the heart of Verdi's Simon Boccanegra, a tale of intrigue, rebellion, betrayal, assassination and passion. Even though Boccanegra never outstripped Verdi's popular operas, many cognoscenti consider it the most beautiful of his operas.

Set against the class-driven battle for the control of 14th-century Genoa, it sympathetically portrays the embattled Doge of the city as the consequences of his past lead - through an estranged daughter, her competing suitors and a life-long enemy - to his own death.

"Claudio Abbado has deepened his understanding of this score over the past thirty-one years, and [his] reading is now of such depth, concentration and unostentatious beauty that the stylistic differences between the original music and the 1881 revision quite disappear, and the work's idealistic advocacy of reconciliation and peace proves quite overwhelming." www.operanews.com

Carlo Guelfi will be appearing as Simon Boccanegra in the Royal Opera House production in February and March 2004

Verdi DVD : Simon Boccanegra - Opera DVD - Verdi DVD : Simon Boccanegra

Reviews:

There are no reviews for this product

Write a review and express your opinions about this product

All trademarks, registered trademarks, logos and artwork remain the property of their respective owners.

Web site development by 1st WebDesigns.