The special screening of Verdi's opera will combine the screen version of the La Scala production with a live commentary by musicologist Ekaterina Mukovozchik. Duke Francesco Foscari is forced to obey the decisions of the Council of Ten, while his son Jacopo is accused of a murder he did not commit. Verdi transforms the family drama into a discussion about power, fear, and the price of the political system, where personal feeling leaves little room for choice. The La Scala production is based on Byron's drama and maintains a dark, restrained tone. Director Alvis Hermanis builds the action through static mise-en-scènes: the characters seem frozen within the rules they cannot oppose. The visual imagery is rendered in amber and golden hues, while Venice appears as a city of external splendor and internal cruelty. At the conductor's podium - Michele Mariotti. The current Moscow program is presented on KUDAGO.