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 ...

“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 ...

Moshinsky may honour the opera’s renaissance setting, but his 14 th century Italy comes by way of Kensal Green and John William Waterhouse – a fantasy vision of a kingdom of brocades and satins, ...

San Francisco Opera has announced details of its 104th season, and General Director Matthew Shilvock is feeling proud of what’s coming. The season, set to run Sept. 12 through June 25, 2027, has a ...

Tickets are from €32 to €175. Although not the best-known of Verdi's operas, Simon Boccanegra was one of his favourites, to the extent that he extensively reworked it 24 years after its Venice ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Elijah Moshinsky’s classic production (first seen in 1991) sweeps grandly over any rough ground though, a gorgeous feast of colour and scope that matches the score for sheer sumptuousness. Moshinsky ...