The Faber Pocket Guide to Opera by Rupert Christiansen

Author:Rupert Christiansen
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780571260973
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 2010-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

In performance

Surely few opera productions have provided such a perfect visual embodiment of the music as Giorgio Strehler’s Simon Boccanegra, first seen at La Scala in 1971 and subsequently much travelled: the brooding atmosphere of a medieval city riven by political faction and the romantic landscape of the sea were magically conveyed by Ezio Frigerio’s gauzy russet sets, and Strehler brilliantly dramatized both the grand public and intimate personal struggles which drive the plot.

A very different interpretation was presented by David Alden at ENO in 1986 – a mixture of medieval and modern, with an abstract setting featuring a giant iron hand, symbolizing both fate and power, which loomed above the Council Chamber, descending when the plebeians invaded.

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