I due Foscari

Synopsis

Acclaim for La Scala’s new Foscari: “Plácido Domingo is the definitive Francesco of recent times” (Financial Times).” Here is Plácido Domingo’s latest conquest: the leading baritone role of Francesco Foscari in Verdi’s darkly atmospheric, melodically generous early opera, based on Lord Byron’s play. Set in 15th-century Venice, I due Foscari is the forerunner of Simon Boccanegra, and Domingo’s triumph as the Doge set the seal on this critically lauded new production from Milan’s Teatro alla Scala, the ultimate Verdi shrine. Declaring the legendary singer “the definitive Francesco of recent times”, the Financial Times’s reviewer also had high praise for the rest of La Scala’s superb cast, from “Andrea Concetti’s solid Loredano, to the immaculate Francesco Meli in a perfect match for Jacopo. Anna Pirozzi makes a triumphant house debut as Lucrezia. She wins hearts and minds through fearsome dramatisation and thrilling vocal power. But the revelation of the night is [conductor] Michele Mariotti.”

Additional Info

• No: A00050037
• Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
• Conductor: Michele Mariotti
• Orchestra: Teatro alla Scala
• Artists: Plácido Domingo, Francesco Meli, Anna Pirozzi, Andrea Concetti, Chiara Isotton
• Production year: 2016
• Run time: 02:02:00
• Director: Stage Director: Alvis Hermanis
• Producers: A production of Servus TV and UNITEL CLASSICA in co-production with Fondazione Teatro alla Scala
• Format: 4K