Simon Boccanegra
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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 by Antonio García Gutiérrez.
First edition libretto for the 1881 revision
Verdi in 1859
Francesco Maria Piave, librettist of the 1857 version
Set design by Girolamo Magnani for 1881 revision
Plácido Domingo
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José Plácido Domingo Embil is a Spanish opera singer, conductor, and arts administrator. He has recorded over a hundred complete operas and is well known for his versatility, regularly performing in I
Simon Boccanegra
…Royal Opera, London in concert in June 1995 with Anthony Michaels-Moore and José Cura and staged at Covent Garden in June 1997 with Sergei Leiferkus and Plácido Domingo in the two aforementioned male roles. The Amelias in the 1995 and 1997 versions were Amanda Roocroft and Kallen Esperian respectively. In August 1999…
Domingo in June 2019
Seventeen-year-old Plácido Domingo as the tenor Rafael the bullfighter in El gato montés with Rosa Maria Montes (Mexico City, 1958)
Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, where Domingo began his operatic career
Domingo made his debut in Verdi's Otello at Bellas Artes in the comprimario rôle of Cassio in 1962