Giuseppe Verdi: I due Foscari

In 15th-century Venice, Jacopo Foscari, son of the Doge of Venice Francesco Foscari, is to be tried by the Council of Ten for a crime of which he claims to be innocent. The Foscari family’s sworn enemy, the vindictive Jacopo Loredano, treacherously secures his sentence of exile. Despite the pleas of Lucrezia, Jacopo’s wife, the unfortunate father is forced to sign his son’s banishment order, even though he is convinced of his innocence. The young man dies of despair just before the real murderer comes forward. Loredano secures the removal of Francesco Foscari, who collapses, lifeless. "I due Foscari" is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi, with a libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, which premiered at the Teatro Argentina in Rome on 3 November 1844.

Cast

Plácido Domingo

Francesco Foscari

Francesco Meli

Jacopo Foscari

Anna Pirozzi

Lucrezia Contarini

Andrea Concetti

Jacopo Loredano

Edoardo Milletti

Barbarigo

Chiara Isotton

Pisana

Azer Rza-Zada

Fante

Modestas Sedlevičius

Servo del Dodge

Bruno Casoni

Maestro del coro