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'''I due Foscari''' (''The Two Foscaris'') is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on a historical play ''The Two Foscari'' by Lord Byron. First performance: Teatro Argentina, Rome, November 3 1844.

Contents

Roles

Noted arias

Notes

External links

Roles

Role	Voice type	Premiere Cast, November 3, 1844[1] (Conductor: - )
Francesco Foscari, ''Doge of Venice''	baritone	Achille De Bassini
Jacopo Foscari, ''his son''	tenor	Giacomo Roppa
Lucrezia Contarini, ''Jacopo Foscari's wife''	soprano	Marianna Barbieri-Nini
Jacopo Loredano, ''Member of the Council of Ten''	bass	Baldassare Miri
Barbarigo, ''a Senator''	tenor	Atanasio Pozzolini
Pisana, ''Friend and confidant of Lucrezia''	mezzo-soprano	Giulia Ricci
Attendant on the Council of Ten	tenor
Servant of the Doge	bass
''Members of the Council of Ten and the Junta, Maidservants of Lucrezia, Venetian Ladies, crowd and masked men and women; Jailors, Gondoliers, Pages and the two sons of Jacopo Foscari''

Noted arias

★ "Dal più remoto esilio" - Jacopo Foscari in Act I, Scene 1

★ "Odio solo ed odio atroce" - Jacopo Foscari in Act I, Scene 1

★ "Sento Iddio che mi chiama" - Jacopo Foscari in Act I, Scene 1

★ "La clemenza! s'aggiunge lo scherno" - Lucrezia Contarini in Act I, Scene 2

★ "Tu al cui sguardi onni possente" - Lucrezia Contarini in Act I, Scene 2

★ "O vecchio cor che batte" - Francesco Foscari in Act I, Scene 4

★ "Non maledirmi o prode" - Jacopo Foscari in Act II, Scene 1

★ "All'infelice veglio" - Jacopo Foscari in Act III, Scene 1

★ "O padre, figli, sposa" - Jacopo Foscari in Act III, Scene 1

★ "Più non vive..l'innocente" - Lucrezia Contarini in Act III, Scene 2

★ "Quel bronzo feral" - Francesco Foscari in Act III, Scene 2

★ "Questa dunque è l'iniqua mercede" - Francesco Foscari in Act III, Scene 2

Notes

1. List of singers taken from Budden, Julian: ''The Operas of Verdi'' (Cassell), vol 1, p. 174.

External links

★ Libretto

★ Aria database