14th-century Genoa is the setting for one of Verdi’s grandest works, Simon Boccanegra, and Peter Hall’s elegant production, with its palpable sense of atmosphere evoked by John Gunter"s sets and costumes, captures perfectly the shadowy world of scheming power politics, set against a shimmering backdrop of the omnipresent sea. A Glyndebourne Festival Opera production, starring Peter Sidhom, Daniel Borowski, Giancarlo Pasquetto, and Alastair Miles. London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Mark Elder.