Fosca (opera) Fosca (opera) Fosca is an opera seria in four acts by Brazilian composer Antônio Carlos Gomes to an Italian-language libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni based on 's 1869 novel "La festa delle Marie". The opera premiered at La Scala in Milan on February 16, 1873. It was a failure because of a dispute between lovers of bel canto and supporters of Wagnerian music-drama. Gomes revised it in 1877, and the premiere of the new version (this time described as a melodramma) on February 7, 1878, also at La Scala, was a success. Since then, performances of the opera, mostly in Brazil,
Vilnius City Opera Vilnius City Opera Vilnius City Opera - a team of independent artists, which started in 2006, when director Dalia Ibelhauptaitė , conductor Gintaras Rinkevičius and scene artist Juozas Statkevičius joined their forces together in staging opera by Giacomo Puccini "La bohème". The artists called themselves "bohemiečiai" ("the Bohemians") since then. After 8 years of activity the troupe acquired a status of professional theatre and became a "Vilnius City Opera". "Vilnius City Opera" has no building and staging operas in Vilnius Congress Concert Hall. One of the main aims of VCO is to make opera genre more widely available, to liberate