Summer 2027 brings Wagner’s “Das Rheingold” (May 29-June 22, 2027), and Shawna Lucey directs Puccini’s “Tosca” (June 4-July 2 ...

The opera Simon Boccanegra by Giuseppe Verdi is scheduled to be performed at the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera from March 19 through March 24, 2026. The production will take place in the ...

The two opera giants of the nineteenth century, Verdi and Wagner, both celebrate their 200th anniversary in 2013. For Verdi, we will be celebrating this by performing his much-loved Simon Boccanegra.

“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 ...

On Saturday, the high-definition broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera will be Giuseppe Verdi's "Simon Boccanegra." The performance begins at noon at the Town Plaza Cinema in Cape Girardeau. This is ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Opera Philadelphia is staging its fifth Festival O, and it includes Verdi's sweeping Simon Boccanegra. "It's actually the first time in 40 years that this opera is coming to ...

Things are getting ugly at Teatro La Fenice, where the installation of a new musical director has sparked a rebellion.

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 ...

Doom and gloom in 14th-century Genoa, painted in monochromatic colours by a composer whose resulting opera was a total failure: this is hardly obvious material for a celebration. But as a highlight of ...