La Gioconda

A fine performance of consistently high quality

APPROPIATE

1986 / 168min.

Rating8

Genres

Music

Synopsis

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.

Directors

Actors

Plácido Domingo

Kurt Rydl

Éva Marton

Ludmila Semtschuk

Matteo Manuguerra

Margarita Lilova

Alfred Šramek

Alfred Burgstaller

Jorge Pita

Goran Simić

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