Simon Boccanegra (MetOpera)

The 2009-2010 MetOpera Live in HD is the Metropolitan Opera's third season of live performances, featuring nine transmissions with many of the world's greatest singers featured in brand new roles. James Levine, Music Director at the Met, says "This is a wonderful balance of repertory that includes four new works and a number of great operas that haven’t been performed for a long time". Read more at nzmetopera.com.

SIMON BOCCANEGRA – Giuseppe Verdi (3 hours 40 minutes / 2 intermissions)
Four decades into a legendary Met career, tenor Plácido Domingo makes history singing the title role in Verdi’s gripping political thriller, which is written for a baritone. Adrianne Pieczonka, Marcello Giordani, and James Morris are his co-stars inthis moving and tragic story of a father and his lost daughter. James Levine conducts.

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