Ludovic Tezier shines in Verdi's dark epic ''Simon Boccanegra"

French baritone Ludovic Tézier is the lead position of a the Doge of Genoa in Verdi's darkish drama Simon Boccanegra. A staging by Andreas Homoki on the Zurich Opera Home.

An emotional and sombre rating

Verdi's epic Simon Boccanegra is a household tragedy interwoven with rivalry and political turmoil. Much less celebrated than his different masterpieces, like Aida or Rigoletto, the opera remains to be certainly one of his strongest works and important viewing for Verdi lovers. On this newest reincarnation, Ludovic Tézier, one of many nice baritones of our time, shines.

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These are scores, that when you've gotten them in your palms, while you decipher them, you realise that each web page is a shock.

Ludovic Tézier

French baritone

"The trail between the dressing room and happening stage, it is a type of void between two worlds, the world of Ludovic Tézier and the world of Simon Boccanegra," Tézier tells Musica,

He provides: "It is actually step one on stage the place you throw your self into the scene, the place the music takes you and the place you free your self and provides the character all of the area."

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Verdi is a superb composer. He's a really theatrical composer. There's lots of love on this rating.

Ludovic Tézier

French baritone

Brilliance in darkness

Set in Renaissance Genoa, Verdi's opera explores treachery and the father-daughter relationship.

"Verdi misplaced his kids after they have been extraordinarily younger. So there's at all times a seek for these misplaced angels and for his fatherhood that destiny has stolen from him. That is extraordinarily touching, this search, we really feel it completely in Simon,” Tézier explains.

The guts of this darkish opera is when Simon Boccanegra is reunited along with his long-lost daughter who he thought had died - a second stuffed with conflicted emotion.

“Regardless that there's this stress and there is this pull to need to embrace, we each form of maintain again and say: Wow, that is lots of emotion all of sudden. Let's take a step again and let's actually really feel what we're feeling and develop a relationship,” the Opera's Soprano, Jennifer Rowley explains.

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There's at all times this leitmotif in Verdi, these robust fathers and daughters and these distortions within the households.

Andreas Homoki

Stage Director

However any happiness is fleeting. Boccanegra is poisoned shortly after being reunited along with his long-lost baby.

“It’s as if he opens a door right into a kingdom of heaven - it’s nearly like a comfort. He does not die in a pure approach, he goes into one other world. He goes into the world of his recollections," the Opera's State Director Andreas Homoki explains.

Summing up the emotion of Verdi's historic drama, Tézier tells us: "What music! I've lots of tenderness for this man due to the life he had, due to the present he gave to all of us, each to the general public and to the artists that we're. Thanks Verdi!"