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I due foscari
- ""Verdi's first four operas had first been staged at La Scala and particularly with Nabucco, had established the young maestro as the leading opera composer in the world's most important opera house. I due Foscari was given its first performance in Rome at the Teatro Argentina on the 3rd of November 1844 and at La Scala the following summer, on the 26th of August 1845. Forced by his sense of duty to sacrifice his son Jacopo and humiliated by his enforced abdication, Francesco Foscari is the first of Verdi's great baritone fathers. The choice then of Renato Bruson to sing the role in this production was indeed an inspired one. The intense nobility of Bruson's singing and acting combined with his expression of the old doge's touching humanity make for a moving performance of great dignity. Fine performances from the entire cast and notably Alberto Cupido, as the ill-fated Jacopo and Linda Roark-Strummer, as his wife, Lucrezia, make this production by the celebrated Pier Luigi Pizzi a truly memorable one. The La Scala Orchestra excels under the baton of the mercurial Gianandrea Gavazzeni who gives full rein to the expressive freshness of this early Verdi work."--Container."
- ""Renato Bruson takes the role of the Venetian Doge, Francesco Foscari, in Verdi's dark, three-act tragedy based on a drama by Lord Byron set in 15th century Venice. Gianandrea Gavazzeni directs the 1988 La Scala production of a work that is hailed among the best of Verdi's early operas, and that led him to a career of operatic immortality."--Container."
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