Roberto Scandiuzzi, a basso nobile who has made the 1881 role of the outraged father Jacopo Fiesco very much his own, was fascinated to see the earlier version staged, but would not wish to sing it because of the higher tessitura of the original scoring, and the less sympathetic emphasis of the characterisation.
"I was more fascinated by the London folklore, and the idea of a very old city like ours having this extra life that these stories give it, " Warlow said.