Simon Boccanegra is an opera with a prologue and three acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on the play Simón Bocanegra by Antonio García Gutiérrez, whose play El trovador had been the basis for Verdi's... Wikipedia
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Librettists: Arrigo Boito and Francesco Maria Piave
First performance: March 12, 1857, Teatro La Fenice, Venice, Italy
Written: 1857