For more than nine decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...

Due out at the end of the week is the first of the autumn’s big CD releases. Not content with trying out her first Wagner, Anna Netrebko is now heading off into hefty verismo roles, such as Ponchielli ...

La Gioconda is an opera in four acts by Amilcare Ponchielli set to an Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on Angelo, Tyrant of Padua, a play in prose by Victor Hugo. First performed in 1876, La ...

We hear the all-star orchestra at the Grand Teton Music Festival in their annual tribute to the music of Vienna. Eiji Oue leads the orchestra in Johann Strauss, Jr.'s The Blue Danube Waltz, along side ...

La Gioconda is an opera in four acts by Amilcare Ponchielli set to an Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito (as Tobia Gorrio), based on Angelo, Tyrant of Padua, a play in prose by Victor Hugo, dating from ...

People think Amilcare Ponchielli is a one-hit wonder because of his famous tune in the opera La Giocanda. But he wrote more than that, including this tribute to Giuseppi Verdi, called "Reminiscences ...

Under the baton of the dynamic and electric guest maestro, Gustavo Dudamel, the Vienna Philharmonic performs the finale of Amilcare Ponchielli’s “Dance of the Hours” from the opera “La Gioconda.” The ...

Here & Now music opinionator Fran Hoepfner joins host Robin Young to discuss why she thinks Amilcare Ponchielli’s “Dance of the Hours,” made famous in Disney’s “Fantasia,” and the “Hello Muddah, Hello ...

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NEWBURYPORT — The Metropolitan Opera’s 2025-26 season of Saturday matinee broadcasts continues with a historic broadcast of Ponchielli’s “La Gioconda,” presented in honor of the 150th anniversary of ...

American soprano Deborah Voigt takes the lead role in this production of Ponchielli's opera recorded live at Barcelona's Gran Teatre Del Liceu in 2005. With stage direction by Pier Luigi Pizzi, ...