Opera Review: Simon Boccanegra @ Coliseum
Dmitri Tcherniakov’s new production of Verdi’s underrated opera.
Dmitri Tcherniakov’s new production of Verdi’s underrated opera.
Everything about English National Opera’s spring/summer season feels shiny and fresh. Six of its eight productions are new, although that is no reason to discount the two revivals.
For good or ill, a man can be prickly when pressed on the subject of his, ahem, endowment. Spare a thought, then, for Juan Pablo Di Pace, who has seen his manhood manhandled by the marketing department of the Royal Opera House. Cast in the …