I due Foscari

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Operas by Giuseppe Verdi

Oberto (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)
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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. The first performance was given in the Teatro Argentina in Rome on November 3, 1844.

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[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] Selected recordings

Year Cast
(Francesco Foscari,
Jacobo Foscari,
Lucrezia, Loredano)		 Conductor,
Opera House and Orchestra		 Label
1951 Giangiacomo Guelfi,
Carlo Bergonzi,
Maria Vitale,
Pasquale Lombardo		 Carlo Maria Giulini,
RAI Orchestra and chorus		 Audio CD :Warner Fonit
Cat: 8573-83515-2
1977 Piero Cappuccilli,
Jose Carreras,
Katia Ricciarelli,
Samuel Ramey		 Lamberto Gardelli,
ORF Symphony Orchestra and Chorus		 Audio CD: Phillips
Cat: 475-8697
2000 Leo Nucci,
Vincenzo La Scola,
Alexandrina Pendatchanska,
Danilo Rigosa
 Nello Santi,
Teatro San Carlo Orchestra and Chorus		 DVD (live performance): TDK
Cat:

[edit] Notes

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

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