I due Foscari

from Giuseppe Verdi


Tragedia lirica in three acts

Libretto

Francesco Maria Piave after Lord Byron

Premiere

3 November 1844, Rome (Teatro Argentina)

Cast

FRANCESCO FOSCARI (baritone)
JACOPO FOSCARI (tenor)
LUCREZIA CONTARINI (soprano)
JACOPO LOREDANO (bass)

CHORUS
Members of the council of Ten and the Giunta, maidservants of Lucrezia, Venetian ladies, crowd, masked men and women

Place

Venice

Time

1457

Composer

Verdi, Giuseppe