Tutto Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

TUTTO VERDI -- this edition to mark the Verdi bicentenary sets standards by which all similar projects will be judged. It includes all twenty-six operas by the greatest Italian stage composer, together with his immortal Requiem, all of them in definitive performances. “This is how Verdi should be played“ -- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on TUTTO VERDI None of Verdi’s other operas was subjected to as radical a series of revisions as Simon Boccanegra. The initial version of 1857 was not a success, so that i