Chelsea Opera Group present Verdi's I due Foscari: A concert performance in Italian with English surtitles at Cadogan Hall, London on Sunday 9th June 2024

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Chelsea Opera Group present Verdi's I due Foscari

A concert performance in Italian with English surtitles

Add to my Calendar 09-06-2024 18:30 09-06-2024 20:30 36 Chelsea Opera Group present Verdi's I due Foscari Based on a play by Lord Byron, The Two Foscari, Verdi’s early opera delves into the dark underside of picture-postcard views of tourist Venice – a world of vendettas, denunciations, wrongful arrests, torture and exile. The elderly Doge of Venice, Francesco Foscari, finds that he is powerless to defend his son Jacopo Foscari against the evil punishments falsely inflicted on him by their sworn enemy, Loredano, despite the passionate interventions of Jacopo’s wife Lucrezia. Composed in 1844, Verdi’s opera builds on the earlier successes of Nabucco and Ernani  The 30-year-old composer is exploring new directions in dramatic structure, mood, characterisation and orchestral sonority, and even experimenting with the Leitmotif technique – a distinctive theme to depict each character in the drama – some years before Wagner. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear Verdi’s rarely performed early masterpiece in all its brooding magnificence. This is a concert performance sung in Italian with English surtitles. Cadogan Hall, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Cadogan Hall
5 Sloane Terrace
Sloane Square, Belgravia
London
SW1X 9DQ
England

Sunday 9th June 2024
6:30 PM

Programme

Giuseppe Verdi – I due Foscari

Performers

Matthew Kofi Waldren – Conductor
Andrei Kymach – baritone
Pablo Bemsch – tenor
Anush Hovhannisyan – soprano
Emyr Wyn Jones – Bass Baritone

Chelsea Opera Group Orchestra
Chelsea Opera Group Chorus

Programme Note

Based on a play by Lord Byron, The Two Foscari, Verdi’s early opera delves into the dark underside of picture-postcard views of tourist Venice – a world of vendettas, denunciations, wrongful arrests, torture and exile.

The elderly Doge of Venice, Francesco Foscari, finds that he is powerless to defend his son Jacopo Foscari against the evil punishments falsely inflicted on him by their sworn enemy, Loredano, despite the passionate interventions of Jacopo’s wife Lucrezia.

Composed in 1844, Verdi’s opera builds on the earlier successes of Nabucco and Ernani The 30-year-old composer is exploring new directions in dramatic structure, mood, characterisation and orchestral sonority, and even experimenting with the Leitmotif technique – a distinctive theme to depict each character in the drama – some years before Wagner.

Don’t miss this opportunity to hear Verdi’s rarely performed early masterpiece in all its brooding magnificence.

This is a concert performance sung in Italian with English surtitles.

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