Verdi - I Due Foscari | Philips - Classic Opera E4758697

Verdi - I Due Foscari

Label: Philips - Classic Opera

Cat No: E4758697

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 12th July 2007

Contents

Artists

Piero Cappuccilli (Doge)
José Carreras (Jacopo)
Katia Ricciarelli (Lucrezia)
Samuel Ramey (Loredano)
Vincenzo Bello (Barbarigo)
Elizabeth Connell (Pisana)
Franz Handlos (Servo)
Mieczyslaw Antoniak (Fante)
ORF Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Vienna

Conductor

Lamberto Gardelli

Works

Verdi, Giuseppe

I due Foscari

Artists

Piero Cappuccilli (Doge)
José Carreras (Jacopo)
Katia Ricciarelli (Lucrezia)
Samuel Ramey (Loredano)
Vincenzo Bello (Barbarigo)
Elizabeth Connell (Pisana)
Franz Handlos (Servo)
Mieczyslaw Antoniak (Fante)
ORF Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Vienna

Conductor

Lamberto Gardelli

About

I due Foscari was Verdi's first commission for Rome and he had first sketched out a synopsis for the opera in the summer of 1843. The libretto, by Piave, is a setting of Lord Byron's historical tragedy The Two Foscari and Verdi wrote the opera during the latter half of 1844; it was premiered in Rome at the Teatro Argentina on 3 November 1844 and the London premiere took place at Her Majesty's Theatre, Haymarket, on 10 April 1857.

"The cast here is first rate, with Ricciarelli giving one of her finest performences in the recording studio to date and with Carreras singing tastefully as well as pwerfully. The crispness of discipline among the Austrian Radio forces is admirable ... the Philips sound is impressively present and clear." The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs

Recorded in Italian
Sung text - English and Italian
Sleeve notes - English, French and Italian
Timing: 104:14
Digital Status: ADD
Recorded: Vienna, June 1976

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