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    Simon Boccanegra (Italian: [siˈmom ˌbokkaˈneːɡra]) is an opera with a prologue and three acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria...
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    Gutiérrez's 1843 play Simón Bocanegra and Giuseppe Verdi's 1857 opera Simon Boccanegra. Simone Boccanegra belonged to the wealthy Genoese Boccanegra family of merchants...
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  • maschera, La forza del destino, Don Carlos/Don Carlo, the revised Simon Boccanegra, Aida, Otello and Falstaff, blazed many new and rewarding performance...
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    with La Fenice for an opera for the following spring. This was to be Simon Boccanegra. The couple stayed in Paris until January 1857 to deal with these proposals...
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    consisted of Verdi operas such as Un ballo in maschera, La traviata and Simon Boccanegra. In 2009 he appeared in Il trovatore in a David McVicar production...
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    Don Carlo, Germont in La traviata, the title roles in Macbeth and Simon Boccanegra, and more recently also Amfortas in Wagner's Parsifal and Scarpia in...
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    Manon Lescaut, La fanciulla del West, Otello, La forza del destino, Simon Boccanegra, Falstaff, Andrea Chénier, Adriana Lecouvreur, La Gioconda, and as...
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    operatic debut took place there in January 1939, when he sang Paolo in Simon Boccanegra. A recording contract with RCA Victor soon followed. Warren later sang...
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    the next ten years, first to encourage the revision of Verdi's 1857 Simon Boccanegra by introducing Boito as librettist and then to begin the arduous process...
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    Bernstein was critically acclaimed. On the other hand, his austere 1969 Simon Boccanegra with the singers clothed in geometrical costumes provoked controversy...
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    debuted the work of Giuseppe Verdi entitled Simon Boccanegra inspired by the first Doge of Genoa, Simone Boccanegra. Genoa is also the birthplace of the condcuctor...
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    Franca Squarciapino (Norma, 1977) Peter Stein (Simon Boccanegra, 2002) Giorgio Strehler (Simon Boccanegra, 1984) Josef Svoboda (Idomeneo, 1971) István Szabó...
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    agreed that Boito should revise the libretto of the original 1857 Simon Boccanegra. Musicologist Roger Parker speculates that this was based on a desire...
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    1856 Revision and translation of Il trovatore, with added ballet 20 Simon Boccanegra Francesco Maria Piave 3 Italian La Fenice, Venice 12 Mar 1857 15a Aroldo...
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    including the title role of Puccini's Manon Lescaut, and Amelia in Verdi's Simon Boccanegra. On 29 September 1965, she first appeared at the Metropolitan Opera...
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    Simone Boccanegra (died 1363), first doge of Genoa the title character of Simon Boccanegra, an 1847 opera by Giuseppe Verdi about Simone Boccanegra; also...
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    Butterfly, Cavalleria rusticana, Cosi fan tutte, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Simon Boccanegra, Il signor Bruschino, Das Rheingold, Lucia di Lammermoor, La bohème...
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    Pavarotti, Raimondi – Levine, cond., Samaritani, dir.) 1984 Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (with Tomowa-Sintow, Moldoveanu, Plishka – Levine, cond., Capobianco...
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    Castlevania Simon Boccanegra, pirate in a Verdi opera by the same name Simon Camden, one of the main characters of television drama 7th Heaven Simon P. Chillings...
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  • Manon Lescaut (Puccini) Margherita, Mefistofele (Boito) Maria/Amelia, Simon Boccanegra (Verdi) The Marschallin, Der Rosenkavalier (Richard Strauss) Minnie...
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    from the tenor repertory into exclusively baritone parts, including Simon Boccanegra. As of 2020, he has performed 151 different roles. Domingo has also...
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  • returned to the baritone repertoire when he sang the title role in Simon Boccanegra. Self-described as "a bastard bari-tenor", Walter Slezak (the son of...
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    featuring Calleja as Tebaldo, conducted by Fabio Luisi 2010: DVD of Simon Boccanegra featuring Calleja as Gabriele Adorno with Plácido Domingo in the title...
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    Verrett, and Simon Boccanegra, opposite Mirella Freni and Nicolai Ghiaurov, both under Claudio Abbado. He had previously recorded Simon Boccanegra under Gavazzeni...
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  • fan tutte Dorabella 1978 Bizet Carmen Micaëla 1979 Verdi Simon Boccanegra Maria Boccanegra Massenet Werther Sophie Wagner Parsifal Flower Maiden 1980...
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    1998, he debuted in two important Verdi roles: Gabriele Adorno in Simon Boccanegra at the Teatro Comunale of Bologna and the title role of Don Carlo,...
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    Gabriele Adorno, is also the tenor role in Giuseppe Verdi's opera Simon Boccanegra. Doge of Genoa Republic of Genoa Fregoso "Adorno Family | ruling family...
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    Don Carlos (EMI Classics) Fidelio (DG) Die Meistersinger (Decca, DG) Simon Boccanegra (TDK) Jenůfa (Erato) Le nozze di Figaro (Sony Music Entertainment)...
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    and beginning to prepare a libretto with Piave for what would become Simon Boccanegra, he encountered some legal difficulties in dealing with Toribio Calzado...
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    become crucial to his later career; these included Scarpia, Rigoletto, Simon Boccanegra. He also appeared at the Rome Opera from 1938 onward in stage productions...
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