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Baritone

Plácido Domingo

Francesco Foscari

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Francesco Meli

Jacopo Foscari

Soprano

Maria Agresta

Lucrezia Contarini

Bass

Maurizio Muraro

Jacopo Loredano

Samuel Sakker

Barbarigo

Mezzo-soprano

Rachel Kelly

Pisana

Conductor

Antonio Pappano

Renato Balsadonna

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Thaddeus Strassberger

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I due Foscari -  (The Two Foscari)

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The Two Foscari

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Danish-German composer Søren Nils Eichberg presents a taut operatic thriller about trust and reality. Find out more at http://www.roh.org.uk/glareSøren Nils ...

Glare trailer (The Royal Opera)

Thaddeus Strassberger, Plácido Domingo, Antonio Pappano, Francesco Meli, Maria Agresta on I due Foscari. Find out more at http://www.roh.org.uk/foscari


I due Foscari, Verdi's sixth opera, is one of his darkest and saddest. At its heart is a father's realization that there is nothing he can do to protect his family against the world's cruelties. The 31-year-old composer may well have drawn on his own devastating experience of losing his wife and two infant children a few years earlier. But despite the opera's sombre soul, the music for I due Foscari contains exhilarating forerunners of Verdi's later style – particularly in the fiercely virtuosic writing for the heroine Lucrezia and her magnificent duets with the Doge in Act I and with her doomed husband in Act II.

American director Thaddeus Strassberger, making his Royal Opera debut, depicts a Venice that is rotten to its core. Mattie Ullrich's opulent costume designs reference the opera’s 15th-century setting while suggesting the corruption lurking beneath. The spare sets of award-winning British designer Kevin Knight illustrate the Foscaris' isolation and the decay of the city, before flaring out into grand guignol for the opera's brilliant Act III carnival.

The cast and creative team introduce I due Foscari (The Royal Opera)

The Two Foscari by Verdi, From (2014/2014), Directed by Thaddeus Strassberger,, Conductor Antonio Pappano, Renato Balsadonna, Royal Opera House, London, United Kingdom

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