Jacopo Foroni 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. He died during a cholera epidemic in 1858. 3. Cesare Farinelli, Ylenia Fornari, "1858-2008, 150° Anniversario della morte di Jacopo Foroni"Valeggio sul Mincio, Verona. Jacopo Foroni Jacopo Foroni (26 July 1825 — Stockholm, 8 September 1858) was an Italian opera composer and conductor who spent most of his
Giovanni Jacopo Spada neither "sports of Nature" nor the products of the biblical Great Deluge, but "antediluvian". He was listed among the subscribers to the corpus of Latin inscriptions assembled at Verona (and other north Italian locations), the "Museum Veronense hoc est antiquarum inscriptionum atque anaglyphorum..." (Verona 1749). Though Spada is barely remembered today, he was commemorated in the snail "Candidula spadae", described by Pietro Calcara in 1845. Giovanni Jacopo Spada Giovanni Jacopo Spada (1680 - 1774) was an Italian naturalist and pioneering geologist, born in Verona, who served for many years as archipresbyter at Graz in Styria. He is known for the