Simon Boccanegra

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 by Antonio García Gutiérrez. It was first performed at Teatro La Fenice, Venice on March 12, 1857. The revised version, with text changes by Arrigo Boito, was first performed at La Scala, Milan on March 24, 1881.
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