The two Foscari: great voices for Verdi’s opera which lands at the Municipale of Piacenza

The two Foscari: the work of Giuseppe Verdi is staged at the Municipale of Piacenza. The appointment is Friday 3 May at 8pm and Sunday 5 May at 3.30pm. The preview for schools is scheduled for tomorrow, again at 3.30 pm.

Management and setup

Considered among the most musically refined of early Verdi, 180 years after its first performance at the Teatro Argentina in Rome on 3 November 1844, the opera will be directed by Matteo Beltrami to his new Verdi debut. He will be on the podium of the Emilia-Romagna Arturo Toscanini Orchestra, with the Choir of the Teatro Municipale of Piacenza prepared by Corrado Casati.

The two Foscari will be proposed in the setup already appreciated on important stages, signed by Joseph Franconi Leewith sets and costumes by William Orlandilights of Valerio Alfiericollaborating director Daniela Zedda and choreographies by Raffaella Renziin a new production of the Fondazione Teatri di Piacenza with the Fondazione Teatro Comunale di Modena.

High level cast

Of excellence the singing company, with the return of the baritone to the Municipal Luca Salsi like Francesco Foscari, in the production that marked his debut in the role of the Doge in 2011 in Trieste; then here’s the tenor Luciano Ganci for the first time in the role of Jacopo Foscari; the soprano Marigona Qerkezi like Lucrezia Contarini, a role in which she was applauded in prestigious theatres. They complete the cast Antonio Di Matteo (Jacopo Loredano); Marcello Nardis (Barbarigo); Ilaria Alida Quilico (Pisa); Manuel Pierattelli (Infantryman); Eugenio Maria Degiacomi (Servant of the Doge).

Between affections and duty

The two Foscarion a booklet by Francesco Maria Piave based on the drama of the same name by Lord Byron, set in the Venice of the Doges in 1457, is a work pervaded by a tragic tone; the drama focuses on the conflict between affections and duty by Francesco Foscari, “prince and father” as he defines himself, whose son Jacopo is accused of treason. The political dimension and the intimate, personal story are the two aspects that characterize this work, which Verdi in a letter to Piave describes as “a beautiful subject, delicate and very pathetic”.

First no… and then yes

The composerfresh from the successes of Nabucco and gods Lombardi at the First Crusadebegan to consider the idea of The two Foscari in 1843 for Venice; but the La Fenice Theater induced him to shelve the project, because it was too risky for the city where descendants of the Council of Ten, so negatively portrayed in the work, still resided.

The choice so he fell back up Ernani, a title successfully represented on 9 March 1844 in Venice. However, Verdi did not forget The two Foscari and for the subsequent commission at the Teatro Argentina in Rome he returned to Byron’s drama. Verdi and the librettist Piave draw an opera of internal struggles, where injustice and political power predominate, played on the characters’ characters rather than on the action, which already contains in essence many elements that the composer will develop later.

Waiting The two Foscari

To introduce the opera to the public will, as usual, be the students of the Liceo Respighi of Piacenza, who on Thursday 2 May at 6 pm in the Sala dei Teatini will present the Verdian title in the appointment of the AperiOpera cycle, with free admission, in a multidisciplinary journey, between acting, music, insights, connections with current events. For information and tickets: Municipal Theater box office, telephone 0523 385720/21 – [email protected].