Delos Presents — Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

Music: Simon Boccanegra: Gran Dio, li benedici Composer: Verdi Artists: Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Barbara Frittoli, Ildar Abdrazakov, Stefano Secco, Constantine Orbelian, Kaunas City Symphony Album: Verdi: Simon Boccanegra Label: Delos Productions DE 3457 Street Date: April 14, 2015 Amazon: iTunes: Our first-ever full-length Italian opera recording, Delos’s star-studded current release of Giuseppi Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra promises to make quite a splash among today’s opera fans. As Verdi was entering his glorious “late period” (Otello and Falstaff) he wrote and re-worked much of Simon Boccanegra, a work that he had first tackled in 1857. The opera emerged in 1881 as a powerful masterpiece, although one that has been unfairly neglected, in comparison with Verdi’s other works on that level. So it’s high time for an authoritative new release of an opera that gives glamorous title star Dmitri Hvorostovsky – c