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
Jacopo Bertoia Jacopo Bertoia Jacopo Bertoia, also known as Giacomo Zanguidi or Jacopo Zanguidi or Bertoja, (1544 – ca. 1574), was an Italian painter of a late-Renaissance or Mannerist style that emerged in Parma towards the end of the 16th century. He was strongly influenced by Parmigianino. Born in Parma, he apparently studied in Bologna with Sabatini. His masterpiece is the "Sala del Bacio", in the Palazzo del Giardino in Parma. He also helped decorate the "Sala di Orfeo" in the same palace. In Rome, he was part of the team that frescoed the walls of the Oratorio del Gonfalone in Rome,