Teatro alla Scala: I due Foscari

Francesco Foscari, Doge of Venice – Placido Domingo

Jacopo Foscari, his son – Francesco Meli

Lucrezia Contarini, Jacopo‘s wife – Anna Pirozzi

Jacopo Loredano, member of the Council of Ten – Andrea Concetti

Pisana, maid – Chiara Isotton

Composer – Giuseppe Verdi

Stage Director and Stage Designer – Alvis Hermanis

Conductor – Michele Mariotti

Costume designer – Kristīne Jurjāne

Lighting designer – Gleb Filshtinsky

Set in 15th-century Venice, I due Foscari is the forerunner of Simon Boccanegra, and Domingo’s triumph as the Doge set the seal on this critically lauded new production from Milan’s Teatro alla Scala, the ultimate Verdi shrine. Declaring the legendary singer “the definitive Francesco of recent times”, the Financial Times’s reviewer also had high praise for the rest of La Scala’s superb cast, from “Andrea Concetti’s solid Loredano, to the immaculate Francesco Meli in a perfect match for Jacopo. Anna Pirozzi makes a triumphant house debut as Lucrezia. She wins hearts and minds through fearsome dramatisation and thrilling vocal power. But the revelation of the night is [conductor] Michele Mariotti."