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I Due Foscari

Opera in three acts by Verdi to a libretto by Piave after Byron (1844, Rome).


 
 
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Operas by Giuseppe Verdi
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Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio (1839)
Un giorno di regno (1840)
Nabucco (1842)
I Lombardi alla prima crociata (1843)
Ernani (1844)
I due Foscari (1844)
Giovanna d'Arco (1845)
Alzira (1845)
Attila (1846)
Macbeth (1847)
I masnadieri (1847)
Jérusalem (1847)
Il corsaro (1848)
La battaglia di Legnano (1849)
Luisa Miller (1849)
Stiffelio (1850)
Rigoletto (1851)
Il trovatore (1853)
La traviata (1853)
Les vêpres siciliennes (1855)
Simon Boccanegra (1857)
Aroldo (1857)
Un ballo in maschera (1859)
La forza del destino (1862)
Don Carlos (1867)
Aida (1871)
Otello (1887)
Falstaff (1893)

I due Foscari (The Two Foscaris) is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on a historical play The Two Foscari by Lord Byron. First performance: Teatro Argentina, Rome, November 3 1844.

Roles

Role Voice type Premiere Cast, November 3, 1844[1]
(Conductor: - )
Francesco Foscari, Doge of Venice baritone Achille De Bassini
Jacopo Foscari, his son tenor Giacomo Roppa
Lucrezia Contarini, Jacopo Foscari's wife soprano Marianna Barbieri-Nini
Jacopo Loredano, Member of the Council of Ten bass Baldassare Miri
Barbarigo, a Senator tenor Atanasio Pozzolini
Pisana, Friend and confidant of Lucrezia mezzo-soprano Giulia Ricci
Attendant on the Council of Ten tenor
Servant of the Doge bass
Members of the Council of Ten and the Junta, Maidservants of Lucrezia, Venetian Ladies, crowd
and masked men and women; Jailors, Gondoliers, Pages and the two sons of Jacopo Foscari

Noted arias

  • "Dal più remoto esilio" - Jacopo Foscari in Act I, Scene 1
  • "Odio solo ed odio atroce" - Jacopo Foscari in Act I, Scene 1
  • "Sento Iddio che mi chiama" - Jacopo Foscari in Act I, Scene 1
  • "La clemenza! s'aggiunge lo scherno" - Lucrezia Contarini in Act I, Scene 2
  • "Tu al cui sguardi onni possente" - Lucrezia Contarini in Act I, Scene 2
  • "O vecchio cor che batte" - Francesco Foscari in Act I, Scene 4
  • "Non maledirmi o prode" - Jacopo Foscari in Act II, Scene 1
  • "All'infelice veglio" - Jacopo Foscari in Act III, Scene 1
  • "O padre, figli, sposa" - Jacopo Foscari in Act III, Scene 1
  • "Più non vive..l'innocente" - Lucrezia Contarini in Act III, Scene 2
  • "Quel bronzo feral" - Francesco Foscari in Act III, Scene 2
  • "Questa dunque è l'iniqua mercede" - Francesco Foscari in Act III, Scene 2

Recordings

DVD

  • (Naples, 2000) Leo Nucci, Vincenzo La Scola, Alexandrina Pendatchanska, Orchestra e Coro Del Teatro di San Carlo, cond. Nello Santi, Stage Director Werner Düggelin, TDK, 114 minutes

Notes

  1. ^ List of singers taken from Budden, Julian: The Operas of Verdi (Cassell), vol 1, p. 174.

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