Jacopo Foroni (

Verona Verona ( ; ; or ) is a city on the Adige, River Adige in Veneto, Italy, with 255,131 inhabitants. It is one of the seven provincial capitals of the region, and is the largest city Comune, municipality in the region and in Northeast Italy, nor ...

, 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 Valeggio sul Mincio, near

, the son of the composer and conductor Domenico Foroni. After studies with his father and Alberto Mazzucato in Milan, Foroni became involved in the

Five Days of Milan The Five Days of Milan ( ) was an insurrection and a major event in the Revolutions of 1848, Revolutionary Year of 1848 that started the First Italian War of Independence. On 18 March, a rebellion arose in the city of Milan which in five day ...

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 Mindre teatern. 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 Tannhäuser overture, in 1856. Milnes, R. Review from 2013 Wexford Festival. ''

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'', January 2014, pp. 56-57. He died during a cholera epidemic in 1858.

Works

* ''Margherita'', Milan, Teatro Re, 1848 * '' Cristina, regina di Svezia'', 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; libretto by Giovanni Peruzzini * ''Advokaten Pathelin'' ( sv), Swedish-language opera based on '' La Farce de maître Pierre Pathelin'', Stockholm,

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, 1858 * Incidental music for plays (as court composer in Stockholm).

References

External links

*Brande, Åke
"Jacopo GB Foroni"
on sok.riksarkivet.se
Swedish Musical Heritage - Jacopo Foroni
Italian male composers 1825 births 1858 deaths Italian male conductors (music) Italian expatriates in Sweden Deaths from cholera People from the Province of Verona 19th-century Italian composers 19th-century Italian conductors (music) {{Italy-composer-stub