Jacopo Foroni
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Jacopo Foroni (Valeggio sul Mincio, Verona 26 July 1824-Stockholm, 8 September 1858) was an Italian opera composer and conductor who spent most of his working life in Sweden.[1]
His father was Domenico Foroni. After studies with Alberto Mazzucato in Milan Foroni worked as a conductor in France, Belgium and Holland before arriving in Sweden in 1849 to work for Vincenzo Galli's opera company at the Mindre teatern where he gave the Swedish premieres of works by Bellini and Donizetti as well as the young Verdi. He conducted the first music by Wagner to be heard in Sweden, the Tannhäuser overture, in 1856.[2]
He died during a cholera epidemic in 1858.
Works
- Margherita Milan 1848
- Cristina, regina di Svezia Stockholm 1849 - Historical-Lyrical Drama in five parts and three acts. Recording The Göteborg Opera Orchestra and Chorus - Tobias Ringborg. Sterling.
- I gladiatori Milan 1852
- Advokathen Panthelin 1858, Swedish opera based on La Farce de maître Pierre Pathelin c.1400
- Incidental music for plays (as court composer in Stockholm).[2]
References
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