'Simon Boccanegra' Sailing Artistic Seas

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2004 SANTA FE OPERA

Conductor Corrado Rovaris and director Stefano Vizioli have worked together many times in the past 20 years, but their collaboration on Verdi's Simon Boccanegra is new territory for both of them.

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'Simon Boccanegra' Sailing Artistic Seas

Conversing in English (because my command of Italian wasn't up to the task), we talked about how easy -- but dangerous -- it is to speak opera-libretto Italian, which is full

of 19th-century anachronisms and bears little resemblance

to contemporary Italian. But meanings are likewise lost in translation from one language to another. When he first came

to the United States, Rovaris said he was puzzled

by people's r...

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