Cadogan Hall

5 Sloane Terrace, London

Going out at Cadogan Hall, sunday 9 june 2024

Verdi’s I due Foscari

Sun 9 Jun 2024, 18:30 - Cadogan Hall, London

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