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Simon Boccanegra
Simon Boccanegra is an opera with a prologue and three acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on the play Simón Bocanegra (1843) by Antonio García Gutiérrez.
It was first performed at Teatro La Fenice, Venice on 12 March 1857. Given the difficulties with the...
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Simone Boccanegra
Simone Boccanegra (died 1363) was the first doge of Genoa. His story was popularized by Giuseppe Verdi's opera Simon Boccanegra.
Boccanegra was elected doge for life on September 24, 1339, as the candidate of the "popular" Ghibelline faction....
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Cardinal Niccolò Fieschi
Niccolò Fieschi (c. 1456 – 1524) was an Italian Cardinal, of a prominent family of Genoa which features in Verdi's Simon Boccanegra.
He was bishop of Fréjus from 1485, and bishop of Agde from 1488. He was archbishop of Ravenna from 1516.
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