La Gioconda

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.

• Filippo SanjustDirector
• Amilcare PonchielliOriginal Music Composer
• Hugo KächDirector
• Arrigo BoitoWriter

• Éva MartonGioconda
• Plácido DomingoEnzo
• Ludmila SemtschukLaura
• Matteo ManuguerraBarnaba
• Margarita LilovaCieca
• Kurt RydlAlvise
• Alfred ŠramekZuàne
• Alfred BurgstallerA Minstrel
• Jorge PitaIsèpo
• Goran SimićA Pilot
• Benedict Kobel1st Gondolier
• Peter Köves2nd Gndolier