Or...
Sometimes the synopsis, the music and an over active imagination is perfectly sufficient to enjoy the opera at first.
Read the synopsis later when you are more curious.
I think I am in a very small minority with this approach though...
Anyway, I have decided to travel from Elizabethan England to Venice, 15th century.
Verdi: I Due Foscari
Piero Cappuccilli (Francesco Foscari), José Carreras (Jacopo Foscari), Katia Ricciarelli (Lucrezia Contarini), Samuel Ramey (Jacopo Loredano), Vincenzo Bello (Barbarigo), Elizabeth Connell (Pisana), Franz Handlos (Servo de Doge), Mieczyslaw Antoniak (Fante del Consiglio de' Dieci)
ORF Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Vienna,
Lamberto Gardelli
Recorded - Vienna, June 1976
I need some Jose Carreras.
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