Guanqun Yu, Ivan Magrì, Bernadett Fodor& István Horváth - Verdi: I due Foscari (Live) (2019) [Hi-Res]

Ivan Repušic, who made his debut as principal conductor of the Münchner Rundfunkorchester in theautumn of 2017 with Giuseppe Verdi’s “Luisa Miller”, now presents a lesser-known masterpiece by the famous Italian opera composer. The concert performance of Verdi's early stage work “I due Foscari” was recorded on November 25, 2018 at the Munich Prinzregententheater.

Verdi's early masterpiece “I due Foscari” was the first opera he wrote for the Teatro Argentina in Rome. He had already worked on the material (Lord Byron's drama “The Two Foscari”), and, after a first subject had been rejected by the Roman censors, Verdi returned to it and had the libretto written by Francesco Maria Piave. Although the opera’s premiere on November 3, 1844 was only moderately successful, the work was still frequently performed up to the 1870s. It was rediscovered during the early 1950s and has since become a fixed part of the international opera repertoire.

The concert performance in Munich's Prinzregententheater received great acclaim from audience and critics alike. Ivan Repušic conducts a genuine theatrical Verdi here: vital, robust, fiery and extremely lively.

Guanqun Yu, sopran (Lucrezia)
Bernadett Fodor, mezzo-soprano (Pisana)
Ivan Magrì, tenor (Jacopo Foscari)
István Horváth, tenor (Barbarigo)
Leo Nucci, baritone (Francesco Foscari)
Miklós Sebestyén, bass baritone (Loredano)
Münchner Rundfunkorchester Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Ivan Repušic, conductor