Organization

Singer

Baritone

Vittorio Vitelli

Simon Boccanegra

Soprano

Selene Zanetti

Amelia Grimaldi

Bass

Luciano Batinić

Jacopo Fiesco

Tenor

Robert Watson

Gabriele Adorno

Csaba Szegedi

Paolo Albiani

Evert Sooster

Pietro

Woohyun Park

Captain of the Crossbowmen

Mezzo-soprano

Tetjana Prybura

Amelia's maid

Conductor

Nicholas Carter

Stage director

Philipp Himmelmann

Set designer

Etienne Pluss

Costume designer

Kathi Maurer

Lighting designer

Fabrice Kebour

Chorus master

Günter Wallner

Dramaturge

Markus Hänsel

Stadttheater Klagenfurt

Orchestra

Kärntner Sinfonieorchester

Others

Chor des Stadttheaters Klagenfurt

Extra Choir of the Stadttheater Klagenfurt

Klagenfurt

Austria

Simon Boccanegra Verdi

Public

Approved

In 1363 the Genoese Doge Simone Boccanegra fell victim to a poison attack. Based on his story, Giuseppe Verdi's opera unfolds into a thriller in which love, family feelings, loyalty and enmity become an inextricable intrigue against the background of a political conspiracy. Philipp Himmelmann returns to the Stadttheater Klagenfurt after almost twenty years with this production, with chief conductor Nicholas Carter taking over the musical direction. The Italian baritone Vittorio Vitelli sings the title role.
After the flop of the premiere in Venice in 1857, Verdi Simon Boccanegra fundamentally reworked it more than twenty years later and led the work to a public success in 1881 at the Milan Scala. The librettist Arrigo Boito, with whom Verdi from then on collaborated intensively, made a particular contribution to this – he also penned the texts for Verdi's late works Otello and Falstaff . Simon Boccanegra culminates in a grandiosely painted utopia of reconciliation and still exerts an irresistible fascination today.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Ensemble