Jacopo Foroni (

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, 26 July 1825 —

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, 8 September 1858) was an Italian opera composer and conductor who spent most of his working life in Sweden.Corrado Ambìveri, ''Operisti minori dell'800 italiano'', 1998: "JACOPO FORONI Valeggio sul Mincio (Verona) 1824 - Stoccolma 1858 .." p. 70. Foroni was born in

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, near

, the son of the composer and conductor Domenico Foroni. After studies with his father and

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in Milan, Foroni became involved in the

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revolt against the Austrians in March 1848. With the failure of that movement, along with many others, he left Italy and worked as a conductor in France, Belgium and Holland with Italian touring opera companies before arriving in Sweden in 1849 to work for Vincenzo Galli's opera company at the

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. There, 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

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overture, in 1856. He died during a cholera epidemic in 1858.

Works

* ''Margherita'', Milan, Teatro Re, 1848 * ''

Cristina, regina di Svezia ''Cristina, regina di Svezia'' (Christina, Queen of Sweden) is an opera in five parts and three acts composed by Jacopo Foroni. The Italian libretto by Giovanni Carlo Casanova is loosely based on the events surrounding the abdication of Christina ...

'', Stockholm, Mindre Theatre, 1849. Historical-lyrical drama in five parts and three acts. (Recorded by the Göteborg Opera Orchestra and Chorus - Tobias Ringborg. Sterling). * ''I gladiatori'', Milan, Teatro alla Canobbiana, 1852 * ''Advokaten Pathelin'' ( sv), Swedish-language opera based on ''

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'', Stockholm,

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, 1858 * Incidental music for plays (as court composer in Stockholm). Milnes, R. Review from 2013 Wexford Festival. ''

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'', January 2014, pp. 56-57.

References

3. Cesare Farinelli, Ylenia Fornari, ''1858-2008, 150° Anniversario della morte di Jacopo Foroni''Valeggio sul Mincio, Verona.

External links

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