La Gioconda

A fine performance of consistently high quality

Recorded live at the Vienna State Opera, Placido Domingo and Eva Marton star in a sumptuous recording of Ponchielli's famed four-act melodrama, a story of tyranny and intrigue set in semi-historical and ever-romantic Venice. The action is projected by strong characters whose fundamentally sound instincts become distorted by raw passion. The performance draws upon both human and technical resources including a large ballet and varies in mood from the happy carnival to scenes of the darkest gloom and horror.

Cast

Éva Marton

Gioconda

Plácido Domingo

Enzo

Ludmila Semtschuk

Laura

Matteo Manuguerra

Barnaba

Margarita Lilova

Cieca

Kurt Rydl

Alvise

Alfred Šramek

Zuàne

Alfred Burgstaller

A Minstrel

Jorge Pita

Isèpo

Goran Simić

A Pilot

Crew

Amilcare Ponchielli

Original Music Composer

Arrigo Boito

Writer

Victor Hugo

Original Story

Filippo Sanjust

Director

Hugo Käch

Director