DE 3457 0 13491 34572 7 GIUSEPPE VERDI (1813—1901) Recorded at Kaunas Philharmonic on August 1-7, 2013 (Kaunas, Lithuania). We would like to thank Algimantas Treikauskas — General Director of the Kaunas City SIMON BOCCANEGRA Symphony Orchestra — for his invaluable help in producing this recording. Opera in three acts and a prologue Special thanks to the “Kino & Teatr” Foundation and to their Director of the Board Libretto: Francesco Maria Piave, based on the play by Stanislav Ershov. Antonio Garcia Gutiérrez; later revised by Arrigo Boito Executive Producer: Carol Rosenberger Producer: Vilius Keras Balance and Recording Engineer: Vilius Keras Recording Engineer and Editing: Aleksandra Suchova Booklet Editor: Lindsay Koob Art Design/Layout: Lonnie Kunkel Cover and booklet photos of Hvorostovsky and Frittoli in costume: Marty Sohl Barbara Frittoli Bio photo: Alexander Vassiliev © 2015 Delos Productions, Inc., P.O. Box 343, Sonoma, CA 95476-9998 (707) 996-3844 • Fax (707) 320-0600 • (800) 364-0645
[email protected] • www.delosmusic.com Made in USA 2 99 3 CD 1: PROLOGO/PROLOGUE 4 5 CD 2: 6 Otello Falstaff — Dmitri Hvorostovsky 7 ollowing in the Verdi canon imme- Boito in conjunction with his conservato- diately a!er Les vêpres siciliennes, ry classmate and friend Franco Faccio, en- Simon Boccanegra, which had its gaged the 20-year-old to write the poem of premiere at La Venice in Venice on March L’ In n o d e l l e n a z i o n i (Hymn of the Nations), 12, 1857, is rightly considered a product which Verdi composed for performance at of the composer’s so-called Middle Peri- the International Exhibition in London in od.