Sir G. Solti conducts Simon Boccanegra

Sir Georg Solti, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, and others talk about Verdi´s opera - Simon Boccanegra -- you can also see some highlight performances of this 1991 Covent Garden production.

Personally I prefer the MET production, I think the characters are much more colourful and alive, especially when you've got Domingo and Te Kanawa as a couple; they have chemistry which, in my opinion, doesn't happen in this Covent Garden production with Kiri Te Kanawa and Michael Sylvester...

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Sir
• Georg
• Solti
• Kiri
• Te
• Kanawa
• Verdi
• Simon
• Boccanegra
• Convent
• Garden
• Michael
• Sylvester
• Alexandru
• Agache
• opera

[LaBelleHelene]

I love him!! Sir George is... amazing!, so sweet!!

And she... She's she!!, with her unique velvet voice...

Completely agree about the MET production! I don't know very well Agache's voice or work but, about the main character, I guess I still prefer Chernov...

Thanks!! ;D*

[thecelticinme]

In general, and again in my humble opinion, the MET production is superior. All the characters seem more real. Here, I felt the performers were not performing but just singing and that's evident in the love duets... they seem everything but in love.

[vitroz]

@LaBelleHelene Chernov cannot hold a candle to him in my humble opinion

[allislove1]

Sir George was amazing and such a darling. He always reminded me of my grandfather whom I just adored.

[mattskib]

I saw this production when this was new and think that this is fab - Kiri is in her best, freshest voice - at the Met she was not so fresh despite being alongside Domingo, who was marvelous of course.....