. The Victrola book of the opera : stories of one hundred and twenty operas with seven-hundred illustrations and descriptions of twelve-hundred Victor opera records . Hugos drama, Angelo. Music byAmilcare Ponchielli. First presented at La Scala, Milan, April 8, 1876. Rewritten by Boitoand given at Genoa, December, 1876, and the following February at La Scala. First Londonproduction, June 7, 1883. Given m Petrograd. January 30, 1883; in Vienna, April 28, 1883;in France, at Nice, December 29, 1886. First New York pro-duction, December 20, 1883, with Nilsson, Scalchi, Fursch-Madi, del Puente and
. The Victrola book of the opera : stories of one hundred and twenty operas with seven-hundred illustrations and descriptions of twelve-hundred Victor opera records . Hugos drama, Angelo. Music byAmilcare Ponchielli. First presented at La Scala, Milan, April 8, 1876. Rewritten by Boitoand given at Genoa, December, 1876, and the following February at La Scala. First Londonproduction, June 7, 1883. Given m Petrograd. January 30, 1883; in Vienna, April 28, 1883;in France, at Nice, December 29, 1886. First New York pro-duction, December 20, 1883, with Nilsson, Scalchi, Fursch-Madi, del Puente and Novara. Revived at the MetropolitanOpera House, New York, December 25, 1913. Characters LA GIOCONDA, a ballad singer Soprano LA ClECA, (See-ay-kah) her blind mother Contralto ALVISE, (Al-oee-zeh) one of the heads of State Inquisition . Bass LAURA, his wife Mezzo-Soprano ENZO GRIMALDO, a Genoese noble Tenor BARNABA, a spy of the Inquisition Baritone ZUANE, a boatman Bass ISEPO, public letter-writer Tenor A Pilot Bass Monks, Senators, Sailors, Shipwrights, Ladies,Gentlemen, Populace, Masquers, etc. The action takes place in Venice, in the seventeenth ROGRAM OF FIRST PERFORMANCE(MILAN, 1876) Gioconda is a work of great beauty, full of wonderful arias, duets and ensembles, with fine choral effects, and a magnificent book is founded on Hugos Tyrant ofPadua, and tells a most dramatic story, which,however, cannot be called inviting, as the librettisthas crowded into it nearly all the crimes he couldthink of! But the average audience does not concernitself much with these horrors, being engaged inlistening to the beautiful music, and admiring thesplendid scenes and colorful action. Prelude By Vessellas Band *35459 12-in., $ I SCENE—Street near the Adriatic Shore, VeniceGioconda, a ballad singer who is in love withEnzo, a Genoese noble and captain of a ship nowin the harbor, supports her blind mother, La Cieca,by singing in the streets of Venice. She has at
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