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
Francesco Maria Piave
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Francesco Maria Piave was an Italian opera librettist who was born in Murano in the lagoon of Venice, during the brief Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy.
Piave's grave at the Monumental Cemetery of Milan
Caricature of Piave as "a theatrical jack-of-all-trades", after 1861