On Saturday, the high-definition broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera will be Giuseppe Verdi's "Simon Boccanegra." The performance begins at noon at the Town Plaza Cinema in Cape Girardeau. This is ...

Simon Keenleyside as Simon Boccanegra and Elin Pritchard as Amelia Grimaldi in Grange Park Opera’s Simon Boccanegra - Alastair Muir ...

Simon Boccanegra is an opera with a prologue and three acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on the play Simón Bocanegra (1843) by Antonio García Gutiérrez, ...

Elijah Moshinsky’s classic production (first seen in 1991) sweeps grandly over any rough ground though, a gorgeous feast of colour and scope that matches the score for sheer sumptuousness. Moshinsky ...

In an approach to one of Verdi’s greatest operas which relies almost entirely upon Verdi’s music and concentrates on a clear statement of the libretto, James Conway delivers a major lesson to the ...

Five years ago Placido Domingo made his belated Proms debut, appearing alongside Bryn Terfel in a concert version of the Royal Opera’s Die Walkure. To many who attended, or saw it on TV, it was one of ...

“Simon Boccanegra,” a story of fathers, politics, love and duty, is returning to La Scala, where personal connections to the opera run deep. By David Belcher Fathers and history loom large, both ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Opera Philadelphia is staging its fifth Festival O, and it includes Verdi's sweeping Simon Boccanegra. "It's actually the first time in 40 years that this opera is coming to ...

The two opera giants of the nineteenth century, Verdi and Wagner, both celebrate their 200th anniversary in 2013. For Verdi, we will be celebrating this by performing his much-loved Simon Boccanegra.

When this sumptuous production by Giancarlo del Monaco opened in 1995, legendary tenor Plácido Domingo gave a riveting performance as the fiery revolutionary Gabriele Adorno, a tenor part. In the 2010 ...