PLÁCIDO DOMINGO ∙ MAURIZIO MURARO ∙ ORCHESTRA & CHORUS OF HOUSE CONDUCTED BY

STAGED BY GIUSEPPE VERDI I DUE FOSCARI

Orchestra Orchestra & Chorus of Jacopo Foscari, son of the Doge of Venice, is convicted of the murder and treason. His wife Lucrezia is sure of his innocence. Conductor Antonio Pappano But the Doge, trapped by the machinations of a corrupt city, is Stage Director Thaddeus Strassberger forced to make a terrible decision. The Doge is presented with a deathbed confession that confirms Francesco Foscari Plácido Domingo Jacopo’s innocence; that moment, a horrified Lucrezia brings Jacopo Foscari Francesco Meli news of Jacopo’s death. The Council of Ten demands the Doge’s Jacopo Loredano Maurizio Muraro resignation. As the bells of St Mark’s sound, he falls lifeless to Lucrezia Contarini Maria Agresta the ground. Barbarigo Samuel Sakker Pisana Rachel Kelly 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 Video Director Jonathan Haswell 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 Length: approx. 125' earlier. But despite the opera’s sombre soul, the music for I due Shot in HDTV 1080/50i Foscari contains exhilarating forerunners of Verdi’s later style Cat. no. A 020 50071 – particularly in the fiercely virtuosic writing for the heroine Lucrezia and her magnificent duets with the Doge in Act I and A production of with her doomed husband in Act II. Royal Opera House “A unique and musically thrilling performance” (Opera today).

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