Published on Jul 13, 2015

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Genre: NCPA

Dates: August 20-23, 2015

Venue: Opera House of NCPA

Prices: 100, 280, 380, 550, 600, 680, 880

Features: Simon Boccanegra is an opera with a prologue and three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. From August 20th-23rd, NCPA's production of Verdi's Simon Boccanegra will stage in Opera House of NCPA.

BRIEF INTRODUCTION

Simon Boccanegra is an opera with a prologue and three acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on the play Simón Bocanegra (1843) by Antonio García Gutiérrez. It was first performed at Teatro La Fenice, Venice on 12 March 1857. Given the difficulties with the original plot, a revised version, with text changes by Arrigo Boito, was first performed at La Scala, Milan on 24 March 1881. It is this version, with its Council Chamber scene as the finale to Act 1, that is usually given today.

Conductor: Myung-Whun Chung
Director: Elijah Moshinsky
Set/Costume Design: Francesco Zito
Lighting Design: Vinicio Cheli
Projection Design: Sergio Metalli
Orchestra: China NCPA Orchestra
Chorus: NCPA Chorus

Conductor: Myung-Whun Chung
Myung-Whun Chung is one of the leading conductors of his generation. Myung-Whun Chung began his musical career as a pianist and won the second prize at the Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow in 1974. He became Carlo Maria Giulini's assistant in 1979 at the Los Angeles Philharmonic and two years later named the Associate Conductor. He has conducted virtually all the prominent European and American orchestras and made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1986 with Simon Boccanegra. At the end of the 1987-88 season, he received the "Premio Abbiati" award from Italian critics, and the following year awarded the "Arturo Toscanini" prize. He was 1995's UNESCO "Man of the Year" and in 1996 won the highest cultural award of the Korean government. He returned to Korea to become music director of the Korean Broadcasting Symphony, and is the first Honorary Cultural Ambassador for Korea.

Tickets for NCPA's Production of Verdi's Simon Boccanegra are Available now!