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Verdi's Simon Boccanegra
註釋Verdi based his opera Simon Boccanegra on Antonio García Gutiérrez's historical drama about a fourteenth century Doge of Genoa. The première in 1857 was a fiasco. Twenty-four years later, he involved Boito, who would subsequently provide him with libretti for Otello and Falstaff, in a drastic revision. Boito's more radical changes were rejected, but although the revised version was a success, the plot remains confusing largely because of the mistaken identities involved. Doge Simon Boccanegra discovers his long-lost illegitimate daughter Maria, whose mother died twenty-five years ago. Now ca.