I DUE FOSCARI POR EVE QUELER

Music Review Opera Orchestra of New York
An Opera, Unloved by Its Creator, Finds Some Devoted Friends Onstage

By VIVIEN SCHWEITZER
Published: December 15, 2007
A few years after the 1844 premiere of “I Due Foscari,” one of his early (and now seldom heard) operas, Verdi disparaged it as a deadly bore. This gloomy three-act work is certainly dark but not dull, especially given the emotive performances by the soloists when Eve Queler conducted the Opera Orchestra of New York and the New York Choral Ensemble in a concert performance at Carnegie Hall on Thursday night.