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I due Foscari

• Tragic opera in 3 acts, Italian
• Libretto Francesco Maria Piave
• Based on Lord Byron's tragedy The two Foscari.
• Place: Venice. Time: 1457
• Premiere Teatro Argentina, Rome, 3 November 1844
  
  
  

The Last Meeting Between Jacopo Foscari and his Family Before Leaving into Exile, by Francesco Hayez, 1838-40. In front, from left to right Lucrezia Contarini, Marina Nani, Doge Francesco Foscari, and Jacopo Foscari (kneeling).

• Characters:
  • Francesco Foscari, Doge of Venice, baritone
    • HP Francesco Foscari, 65th doge of Venice
    • Achille De Bassini sang in the first premiere 3 Nov 1844
    • Felice Varesi
    • Raffaele Ferlotti
    • Antonio Cotogni ao. in London
    • Sir Charles Santley
    • Giuseppe Pacini
    • Giuseppe De Luca
    • Piero Cappuccilli
  • Jacopo Foscari, his son, tenor
    • HP Jacopo Foscari
    • Giacomo Roppa sang in the first premiere 3 Nov 1844
    • Giovanni Matteo (Mario) De Candia
    • Raffaele Mirate
    • Carlo Baucardé
    • Luigi Bolis, Sr.
    • Leopoldo Signoretti
    • Luigi Colazza
    • Carlo Bergonzi
    • Plácido Domingo Embil
    • José Maria Carreras
  • Lucrezia Contarini, Jacopo Foscari's wife, soprano
    • HP Lucrezia Contarini
    • Marianna Barbieri-Nini sang in the first premiere 3 Nov 1844
    • Fanny Tacchinardi Persiani
    • Giuseppina Clelia Maria Josepha Strepponi
    • Fanny Salvini-Donatelli
    • Rita Gabussi
    • Catharine Simonsen
    • Angiolina Bosio
    • Montserrat Caballé
    • Ángeles Gulín
  • Jacopo Loredano, Member of the Council of Ten, bass
    • Baldassare Miri sang in the first premiere
    • Marco Arati
    • Antonio "Selva" Scremin
  • Barbarigo, a Senator, tenor
    • Atanasio Pozzolini sang in the first premiere
  • Pisana, Friend and confidant of Lucrezia, mezzo-soprano
    • Giulia Ricci sang in the first premiere
• Costume designor
  • Niccola Sartori in the world premiere 3 Nov 1844
• Conductors:
  • Emilio Angelini conducted in the first premiere 3 Nov 1844
  • Luigi Fabbrica
  • Tullio Serafin
  • Gianandrea Gavazzeni
  • Carlo Maria Giulini
  • Lamberto Gardelli
    
    
    

The Abdication of Doge Foscari, (by Louis Duveau 1850). In front from left, Lucrezia Contarini, Francesco Foscari, and his nephew Andrea Foscari.

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