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2026-27 Season

Simon Boccanegra

Giuseppe Verdi

Overview

Dates

September 10–October 5, 2022

Composer

Giuseppe Verdi

Price

Starting at $26

Run Time

2 hours, 45 minutes including one intermission

Language

Sung in Italian with English supertitles

Libretto

Francesco Maria Piave

History crowns him, but grief consumes him.

He accepts the chance to lead the Republic of Genoa with the hope of uniting his family. But on the very day Simon Boccanegra is elected doge, tragedt strikes—his beloved dies, and his infant daughter vanishes. Now, 25 years later, Boccanegra is a seasoned leader balancing opposing political factions. As he works to bring stability to a fractured republic, fate gives him one more chance at the familial reunion he's longed to secure.

Simon Boccanegra is both an intimate story of love, loss, and reconciliation, and a larger political allegory for a divided Italy aching for unity.

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* San Francisco Opera Debut

PERFORMANCES
September 12, 16, 19, 22, 25, 27

Staatsoper Hamburg Production

Made Possible By

This production is made possible, in part, by Opening Weekend Grand Sponsor Diane B. Wilsey.

Additional support is provided by Bertie Bialek Elliott, Bob Ellis; John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn, San Francisco Opera Guild, Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem, Denise Littlefield Sobel, and Thomas Tilton Fund

This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

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