Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (1857 Version) The Hallé & Sir Mark Elder

• Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901): Simon Boccanegra (1857 Version), Preludio:
• 1 Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (1857 Version), Preludio 02:33
• Simon Boccanegra (1857 Version), N. 2 Prologo:
• 2 Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (1857 Version), N. 2 Prologo: Che dicesti? (Paolo, Pietro) 01:17
• 3 Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (1857 Version), N. 2 Prologo: Un amplesso... Che avvenne? (Simone, Paolo) 01:50
• 4 Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (1857 Version), N. 2 Prologo: All'alba tutti qui verrete (Pietro, Chorus)' 02:09
• 5 Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (1857 Version), N. 2 Prologo: L'atra magion vedete? (Paolo, Chorus) 02:48
• 6 Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (1857 Version), N. 2 Prologo: A te l'estremo addio... Il lacerato spirito (Fiesco, Chorus) 05:28
• 7 Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (1857 Version), N. 2 Prologo: Suona ogni labbro il mio nome (Simone, Fiesco) 03:38
• 8 Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (1857 Version), N. 2 Prologo: Del mar sul lido (Simone, Fiesco) 02:58
• 9 Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (1857 Version), N. 2 Prologo: Oh, de' Fieschi implacata (Simone, Fiesco, Chorus) 02:48
• 10 Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (1857 Version), N. 2 Prologo: Doge il popol t'acclama! (Paolo, Pietro, Simone, Fiesco, Chorus) 01:28
• Simon Boccanegra (1857 Version), N. 3 Cavatina:
• 11 Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (1857 Version), N. 3 Cavatina: Come in quest'ora bruna (Amelia) 04:56
• 12 Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (1857 Version), N. 3 Cavatina: Spuntò il giorno! (Amelia, Gabriele) 04:19
• Simon Boccanegra (1857 Version), N. 4 Duetto:
• 13 Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (1857 Version), N. 4 Duetto: Ti veggo alfin! (Amelia, Gabriele) 01:31
• 14 Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (1857 Version), N. 4 Duetto: Vieni a mirar la cerula (Amelia, Gabriele) 02:59
• 15 Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (1857 Version), N. 4 Duetto: Ah... Che fia?... Vedi là quell'uom? (Amelia, Gabriele, Ancella, Pietro) 01:02
• 16 Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (1857 Version), N. 4 Duetto: Sì, sì dell'ara il giubilo (Amelia, Gabriele) 01:44
• Simon Boccanegra (1857 Version), N. 5 Duetto:
• 17 Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (1857 Version), N. 5 Duetto: Propizio ei giunge! (Gabriele, Fiesco) 04:07
• Simon Boccanegra (1857 Version), N. 6 Duetto:
• 18 Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (1857 Version), N. 6 Duetto: Il nuovo dì festivo (Doge, Paolo, Amelia) 03:13
• 19 Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (1857 Version), N. 6 Duetto: Orfanella il tetto umile (Amelia, Doge) 09:51
• 20 Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (1857 Version), N. 6 Duetto: Che rispose? (Paolo, Doge, Pietro) 01:18
• Simon Boccanegra (1857 Version), N. 7 Finale:
• 21 Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (1857 Version), N. 7 Finale: A festa, o Liguri (Chorus) 01:21
• 22 Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (1857 Version), N. 7 Finale: Sull'arpe, sulle cetere (Chorus) 02:02
• 23 Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (1857 Version), N. 7 Finale: Prode guerrier (Chorus) 02:07
• 24 Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (1857 Version), N. 7 Finale: Tradimento... Quali grida (Gabriele, Fiesco, Doge, Paolo, Pietro, Amelia, Chorus) 01:46
• 25 Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (1857 Version), N. 7 Finale: Ella è salva! (Fiesco, Gabriele, Doge, Amelia, Paolo, Pietro, Chorus) 03:43
• 26 Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (1857 Version), N. 7 Finale: Amelia, racconta qual fosti rapita (Doge, Amelia, Gabriele, Fiesco, Paolo, Pietro, Chorus) 05:50
• Simon Boccanegra (1857 Version), N. 8 Duetto:
• 27 Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (1857 Version), N. 8 Duetto: Quei due vedesti? (Paolo, Pietro, Fiesco) 02:48
• Simon Boccanegra (1857 Version), N. 9:
• 28 Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (1857 Version), N. 9: Udisti?... Vil disegno! (Paolo, Gabriele) 03:29
• 29 Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (1857 Version), N. 9: Cielo pietoso, rendila (Gabriele) 02:41
• Simon Boccanegra (1857 Version), N. 10 Duetto:
• 30 Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (1857 Version), N. 10 Duetto: Tu qui?... Amelia! (Amelia, Gabriele) 04:25
• Simon Boccanegra (1857 Version), N. 11 Terzetto:
• 31 Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (1857 Version), N. 11 Terzetto: Figlia!... Sì afflitto, padre mio? (Doge, Amelia) 03:33
• 32 Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (1857 Version), N. 11 Terzetto: Doge! Ancor proveran la tua clemenza (Doge, Gabriele, Amelia) 04:46
• 33 Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (1857 Version), N. 11 Terzetto: Perdon, Amelia (Gabriele, Doge, Amelia) 03:45
• 34 Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (1857 Version), N. 11 Terzetto: All'armi, all'armi (Chorus) 01:22
• Simon Boccanegra (1857 Version), N. 12 Finale:
• 35 Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (1857 Version), N. 12 Finale: Vittoria, vittoria! (Chorus, Doge, Pietro, Paolo) 02:06
• 36 Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (1857 Version), N. 12 Finale: Dal sommo delle sfere (Chorus, Paolo, Fiesco) 03:12
• 37 Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (1857 Version), N. 12 Finale: Pietro, m'ardon le tempia (Doge, Pietro, Fiesco) 03:29
• 38 Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (1857 Version), N. 12 Finale: Delle faci festanti al barlume (Fiesco, Doge) 01:59
• 39 Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (1857 Version), N. 12 Finale: Come un fantasima (Fiesco, Doge) 01:56
• 40 Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (1857 Version), N. 12 Finale: Piango, perché mi parla (Fiesco, Doge) 04:21
• 41 Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (1857 Version), N. 12 Finale: Chi veggo! (Amelia, Doge, Gabriele, Fiesco) 02:46
• 42 Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (1857 Version), N. 12 Finale: Grand Dio li benedici (Doge, Amelia, Gabriele, Fiesco, Chorus) 07:35
• Total Runtime 02:12:59

Info zu Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (1857 Version)

The original version of Simon Boccanegra, first performed in 1857, is a masterpiece of concision and vocal delivery, with many important differences from the later 1881 version, including one of Verdi’s most innovative central finales.

Sir Mark Elder leads a star cast including Eri Nakimura as Amelia, Iván Ayón-Rivas as her lover Gabriele, William Thomas as Fiesco and the young Argentinian baritone Germán Enrique Alcántara in the title role.

Verdi’s Italian libretto to Simon Boccanegra was written by Francesco Maria Piave, based on Antonio García Gutiérrez’s Spanish romantic drama Simón Boccanegra (1843). In March 1857 Boccanegra, in four acts, premiered at Venice’s Teatro La Fenice to a very mixed reception. It was in Verdi’s own words ‘a greater fiasco than La traviata’ in 1852. For some performances soon after, Verdi gave several revisions to Boccanegra but audiences still remained indifferent and subsequent revivals met with little success. Its publisher Ricordi keen to successfully revive the opera persuaded Verdi, who together with accomplished librettist Arrigo Boito, undertook thorough and forward-looking revisions to the score including rewrites, even adding ‘the Council Chamber Scene’. Staged to considerable success the 1881 edition of Boccanegra in a prologue and three acts is the version usually heard and recorded.

Only recently and for the first time, Verdi’s autographed score of Boccanegra has become available to researchers. It was Opera Rara’s repertoire consultant Roger Parker who edited the score, subsequently published by Ricordi (2022). Parker has explained that ‘the autograph materials thus provide a rich new resource, offering us the chance to see Verdi’s richly detailed musical instructions for the first time’.

Eri Nakamura, soprano (Maria/Amelia)
Iván Ayón-Rivas, tenor (Gabriele Adorno)
William Thomas, bass (Fiesco)
Germán Enrique Alcántara, baritone (Simon Boccanegra)
Sergio Vitale, baritone (Paolo Albiani)
The Hallé
Chorus of Opera North
RNCM Opera Chorus
Sir Mark Elder, conductor

Sir Mark Elder
has been Music Director of the Hallé since September 2000. He was previously Music Director of English National Opera (1979–1993) and Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. From 2022/23 he has taken up the post of Principal Guest Conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. He has enjoyed long relationships with the London Philharmonic and London Symphony Orchestras as well as working with leading symphony orchestras throughout the world. He is a Principal Artist of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and has appeared annually at the Proms for many years, including—in 1987 and 2006—the internationally televised Last Night. He has enjoyed a long association with the Royal Opera House and has appeared in many other prominent theatres including the Metropolitan Opera, Opéra de Paris, Bavarian State Opera, Zürich, Dutch National Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, San Francisco and Glyndebourne Festival Opera. He was the first English conductor to conduct a new production at the Bayreuth Festival. From 2011 to 2019 he was Artistic Director of Opera Rara, and he has made many award-winning recordings in a wide repertoire with the Hallé, including a complete Ring cycle, Parsifal and the three great Elgar oratorios. Sir Mark Elder was appointed a Companion of Honour in 2017, knighted in 2008 and awarded the CBE in 1989. In May 2006 he was named Conductor of the Year by the Royal Philharmonic Society and he was awarded Honorary Membership of the Royal Philharmonic Society in 2011. He is International Chair in Conducting at the Royal Northern College of Music and Barbirolli Chair at the Royal Academy of Music.

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