abstract:Fosca is an opera seria in four acts by Brazilian composer Antônio Carlos Gomes to an Italian-language libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni based on Luigi Capranica's 1869 novel La festa delle Marie.
Judy Kuhn as sickly Fosca sings impeccably, imbuing her unsympathetic character with an almost-feral, obsessive, clinging ferocity that overshadows everything else.
Silverman has the difficult task of maintaining credibility as handsome Giorgio's passion at last improbably turns from the lovely Clara toward the plain, self-pitying Fosca.