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 ...

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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 ...

“Yesterday your mother offended me, so I drowned her,” snarls Barnaba, a ruthless government agent, at the end of La Gioconda, Amilcare Ponchielli’s sole opera to enter the standard repertoire, ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by In a new staging at La Scala, “La Gioconda” will capture the full range of human emotion in a dreamlike Venice, with dashes of Kubrick and Fellini. By ...

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 ...

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, ...