Simon Boccanegra at Nationaltheater Mannheim

In the 14th century Genoa, civil war. The people will overthrow the nobility and selects the Corsairs of Simon Boccanegra for Doge. It hopes to be able to make peace with the help of his new Office, with the influential aristocrats Fiesco and marry his daughter, Maria, with whom he already has a daughter. Fiesco, however, requires the lost daughter for themselves and conceals the death of Mary's Boccanegra.
The now adult become daughter grew up as Amelia in the Grimaldi family. She loves Gabriele Adorno, who plans to Boccanegra fall. Father and daughter recognize themselves during a visit of Boccanegra at the Grimaldi. The Doge leaves off of his intention to marry Amelia with the leader of the people's Party of Paolo Albiani. He retaliates by mixing poison in a cup of water to him and incites Adorno to murder. At the last moment, Adorno understood the intrigue and reflected on Boccanegra page. Dying, concludes the Doge peace with Fiesco and creates the link between Amelia and Adorno, whom he appointed as his successor.
premiered in Venice in 1857 and comprehensively revised over twenty years later, Giuseppe Verdi taking a decisive step with Simon Boccanegra away from the traditional leitmotif and a through-composed, scene cross-music drama tischen design that closely follows the eponymous poem by Antonio Garcia Gutierrez, and the actual beginning of Verdi's late work referred to as can be.