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La Gioconda

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Opera in four acts
Music by Amilcare Ponchielli Text by ARRIGO BOITO after VICTOR HUGO (sung in Italian)
The action is set in 17th-century Venice. (soprano) (mezzo-soprano) (bass) (contralto) (tenor) (baritone) (baritone)
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE VIENNA STATE OPERA conducted by ADAM FISCHER

Contributors

Unknown:
Arrigo Boito
Unknown:
Victor Hugo
Conducted By:
Adam Fischer
La Gioconda, a ballad-singer:
Eva Marton
La Cieca, her blind mother:
Margarita Lilowa
Alvise Badoero, one of the heads of the State Inquisition:
Kurt Rydl
Laura Adorno, his wife:
Ludmilla Semtschuk
Enzo Grimaldo, a Genoese nobleman:
Placido Domingo
Barnaba, a spy of the Inquisition:
Matteo Manuguerra
Zuane, a boatman:
Alfred Sramek
Source: Radio Times

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