Simon Boccanegra; 63rd Aldeburgh festival | Classical review

Royal Opera House, London; Snape Maltings, Suffolk"Plebeians, patricians!" cries Simon Boccanegra, the pirate turned doge of Genoa, in a plea for peace in the great council chamber scene of Verdi's elusive opera. This noble role was the one chosen by Plácido Domingo, 69, for his switch from tenor to baritone in the unexpected late flowering of a half-century career. Eight months ago, he sang it for the first time in Berlin under Daniel Barenboim. Since then, despite union strikes at La Scala an...

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