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Opera

Opera review: Verdi should be as controversial as Wagner

13 July 2013

9:00 AM

13 July 2013

9:00 AM

Simon Boccanegra

Royal Opera House, in rep until 16 July

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Royal College of Music

I’m not the first person to remark that Verdi is getting oddly little attention in this his bicentenary year, especially when compared with his contemporary Wagner who, despite the usually much greater demands his works make in almost all respects, is not only receiving plenty of performances, but is also the subject of even more books than usual, not all of them about his alleged faults of character.

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