The Scene of the Council Hall: the Storyline and the Structure of the Grand Final Scene in the Second Edition of Verdi’s Opera Simon Boccanegra
Journal: Contemporary Musicology
Year: 2024

The comparison of different authorial redactions of operas presents one of the through themes of world Verdi studies. The opera Simon Boccanegra holds a unique position, since the second version of the opera was created by Verdi almost a quarter of a century following the first. The depth of the changes, first of all, in the final scene of the first act, for which a new interpretation of the content was found is stipulated by such a temporal distance. Also important is the fact that the edition