Talk:Simon Boccanegra

A totally innocent question
I'm not asking this archly or disapprovingly or anything, just ... I'm wondering why we now have translations of the arias' titles?  almost - instinct 19:58, 22 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Well, as the editor who put them in this afternoon, it seems to make perfect sense to not only the Italian first line or so of the aria - and, in the context of a synopsis in ENGLISH, to include a brief ENGLISH translation of what is written in Italian.


 * More importantly, I think, this is SOP for the WikiProject Opera guidelines. See section 11. Many opera articles now have them; with one exception, all Verdi operas do have them. Viva-Verdi (talk) 02:41, 23 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Thank you, esp. for the link :-)  almost - instinct 09:40, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Differences between versions
Should the article describe the differences between the first and revised versions? At least I would love to know! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.186.20.153 (talk) 23:20, 15 July 2010 (UTC)


 * There is certainly no reason why not. Sometimes, as with Macbeth (opera) differences are noted in the synopsis. If someone with a score of the early version or a recording of it could note the differences (one being the absence of the Act 1 finale Council Chamber scene), that would be useful. Viva-Verdi (talk) 23:50, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

I think you will find Jullian Budden's book gives a full acount of the differences between the two scoresDelahays (talk) 14:03, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

I don't have Budden handy just now - my copy is 400 miles away -, but IMSLP has an early vocal score of the 1857 version. From a quick look, and from memories of the Matheson recording, summarising the differences between the two versions is likely to take a lot of space - Verdi didn't just recompose the Act I finale creating the great Council scene, but made fairly significant alterations elsewhere, for instance the Prologue. It's not worth wasting time with the Phillips-Matz biography, which doesn't deal with texts. Why not an article for each version? You treat Stiffelio and Aroldo as different scores, but there is less musical difference between them than between the two Simon Boccanegras. Delahays (talk) 14:30, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Singer images
These three images were used without attribution to which revision they premièred. They were also next to a role table, and on narrow monitors, form a column above the role table three images high. If they're to be used, please, please put them somewhere else, and be very clear to which revision they're firsts from. Adam Cuerden (talk) 07:54, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

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