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Simon Boccanegra [videorecording (DVD)] / Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto, Francesco Maria Piave and Arrigo Boito.

by Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.

Deutsche Grammophon, [2002].

DVD 792.542 S596

[videorecording (DVD)] /

1 videodisc (141 min.) : DDD digital stereo. sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 booklet.

Melodramma in a prolog and 3 acts.

Based on: Simón Bocanegra / Antonio García Gutiérrez.

Originally released in 1996.

Special features: Includes picture gallery ("Boccanegra" at the Met) and trailer.

Program notes and summary in English, German and French in booklet in container.

Recorded Jan. 1995, at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York.

Sung in Italian; subtitles in Italian, English, German, French, Spanish and Chinese.

Production, Giancarlo Del Monaco ; Set and costume designer, Michael Scott ; Lighting designer, Gil Wechsler ; Producer, Louisa Briccetti ; Video director, Brian Large ; Audio producer Jay David Saks.

The Metropolitan Opera ; Kiri Te Kanawa, soprano ; Plácido Domingo, tenor ; Vladimir Chernov, baritone ; Robert Lloyd, bass ; supporting soloists ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; James Levine, conductor.

Filmed performances.

Classical/Opera/Choral.

Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901. Simon Boccanegra.

Piave, Francesco Maria, 1810-1876.

Boito, Arrigo, 1842-1918

Chernov, Vladimir, 1953-

Te Kanawa, Kiri

Domingo, Plácido, 1941-

Lloyd, Robert, 1940-

Levine, James, 1943-

García Gutiérrez, Antonio, 1813-1884. Simón Bocanegra

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.). Chorus.

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.). Orchestra.

Deutsche Grammophon (Firm)

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