Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Simon Keenleyside as Simon Boccanegra and Elin Pritchard as Amelia Grimaldi in Grange Park Opera’s Simon Boccanegra - Alastair ...

On Calixto Bieito’s new production of Simon Boccanegra at Opéra Bastille. The problems begin in the prologue, by the end of which Boccanegra is elected doge over aristocratic opposition. The patrician ...

So absorbing is Simon Boccanegra that it’s easy to forget we’re watching an opera. Verdi’s moving tale of paternity and politics is a remarkable fusion of music and drama, and it hurtles forward with ...

“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 ...