Verdi: Simon Boccanegra Wiener Symphoniker Orchestra

• 1 Che dicesti? Paolo, Pietro, Simone, marinai, artigiani 06:36
• 2 L’atra magion vedete? Paolo, Pietro, Fiesco, marinai, artigiani 02:55
• 3 A te l’estremo addio, palagio altero Fiesco, donne, uomini 05:03
• 4 Suona ogni labbro il mio nome Simone, Fiesco 06:12
• 5 Oh, de’ Fieschi implacata, orrida razza Simone, Fiesco, Paolo, Pietro, marinai, artigiani 03:57
• 6 Preludio · Prelude · Prélude · Vorspiel 02:08
• 7 Come in quest’ora bruna sorridon gli astri e il mare! Amelia 04:07
• 8 Cielo di stelle orbato Gabriele, Amelia, Pietro 07:09
• 9 Propizio ei giunge! Gabriele, Fiesco 04:21
• 10 Il Doge vien Gabriele, Fiesco, Doge, Paolo, Amelia 03:38
• 11 Orfanella il tetto umile m’accogliea d’una meschina ...Figlia! a tal nome io palpito Amelia, Doge 09:07
• 12 Che rispose? — Rinuncia a ogni speranza Paolo, Doge, Pietro 01:14
• 13 Messeri, il re di Tartaria vi porge pegni Doge, Paolo, Pietro, Gabriele, consiglieri, popolo 06:57
• 14 Ferisci! — Amelia! Amelia, Gabriele, Doge, Fiesco, Paolo, Pietro, consiglieri 00:54
• 15 Amelia, di’ come fosti rapita ... Nell’ora soave che all’estasi invita 02:36
• 16 Plebe! Patrizi! Popolo ... Piango su voi Doge, Amelia, Pietro, Paolo, Gabriele, Fiesco, consiglieri, popolani 05:12
• 17 Ecco la spada Gabriele, Doge, Paolo, Pietro, Amelia, Fiesco, consiglieri, popolani 04:33
• 18 Quei due vedesti? Paolo, Pietro 02:21
• 19 Prigioniero in qual loco m’adduci? Fiesco, Paolo 01:43
• 20 Udisti? — Vil disegno! ... Sento avvampar nell’anima ... Cielo pietoso, rendila Paolo, Gabriele 05:18
• 21 Tu qui? — Amelia! Amelia, Gabriele 04:18
• 22 Figlia! — Sì afflitto, o padre mio? Doge, Amelia 05:46
• 23 Oh! Amelia... ami... un nemico ... Perdon, Amelia Doge, Gabriele, Amelia 06:47
• 24 All’armi, all’armi, o Liguri Coro, Amelia, Gabriele, Doge 01:18
• 25 Evviva il Doge! Coro, Capitano, Fiesco, Paolo 06:49
• 26 M’ardon le tempia ... Come un fanatasima Fiesco t’appar Doge, Fiesco 06:53
• 27 Piango, perché mi parla in te del ciel la voce Fiesco, Doge 03:48
• 28 Chi veggo! Maria, Doge, Gabriele 02:08
• 29 Gran Dio, li benedici Doge, Maria, Gabriele, Fiesco, coro 07:58
• Total Runtime 02:11:46

Info for Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

In a major release in Verdi year, Decca's star tenor Joseph Calleja makes his first major opera release in a lead role, singing Gabriele Adorno in a stunning new Simon Boccanegra for Verdi's bicentenary year.

Calleja sings Gabriele Adorno opposite Thomas Hampson's Simon Boccanegra in a live concert performance recorded at the Vienna Konzerthaus. The first-class cast also includes Latvian soprano Kristine Opolais as Amelia, Luca Pisaroni as Paolo and Carlo Colombara as Fiesco. Top-league Italian conductor Massimo Zanetti leads the Wiener Symphoniker and Wiener Singakademie.

A star of the Metropolitan Opera New York and a favourite around the world, the Maltese-born Calleja has been receiving extravagant praise at every step of his meteoric career. He stunned audiences with his Nessun dorma at last year's Last Night of the Proms, televised worldwide, and was named Gramophone's "Artist of the Year 2012" at just 34.

Thomas Hampson (Simon Boccanegra)
Joseph Calleja (Gabriele Adorno)
Kristine Opolais (Amelia/Maria)
Carlo Colombara (Fiesco)
Luca Pisaroni (Paolo)
Wiener Symphoniker
Wiener Singakademie
Massimo Zanetti, conductor

Recorded in concert at the Wiener Konzerthaus, 12–18 April 2013
Executive & Recording Producer: Alexander Van Ingen
Recording Producer for ORF: Wolfgang Racher
Recording Engineer: Robert Pavlecka
Recording Editor: Raphaël Mouterde
Mixing Engineer: Andrew Mellor

Wiener Symphoniker
As Vienna’s cultural ambassador and premier concert orchestra, the Wiener Symphoniker handles the lion’s share of symphonic activity that makes up the musical life of the city. The preservation of the traditional, Viennese orchestral sound occupies a central role in the orchestra’s many artistic pursuits. The Wiener Symphoniker is one of Europe’s most prestigious ensembles and boasts 128 members. For this reason, the orchestra is precisely the right vehicle for the great Romantic works of Brahms, Bruckner, Mahler and Richard Strauss that constitute its core repertoire.

The Vienna Musikverein and nearby Konzerthaus are the principal performing venues of the Wiener Symphoniker. The orchestra has also been in residence at the Bregenzer Festspiele since 1946 and continues to maintain close ties to the festival. Beginning in 2006, the orchestra added another feather to its cap: The Wiener Symphoniker now serves as resident opera orchestra for a whole host of stylistically diverse productions taking place at the Theater an der Wien. Periodic international tours to the most important music centers round out the extensive portfolio of this traditional, Viennese orchestra.

Booklet for Verdi: Simon Boccanegra