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Simon Boccanegra

NEW YORK CITY

The Metropolitan Opera

1/20/11

Boccanegra at the Met, with Furlanetto, Frittoli, Hvorostovsky and De Biasio
© Beatriz Schiller 2011

Nobody would argue for the plot of Simon Boccanegra as a model of logic or lucidity. But it's an opera whose emotionalnarrative reads clearly from first note to last. In the Met's magnificent January ...

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