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La Gioconda was first performed at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan, on 8 April 1876 with Italian soprano Maddalena Mariani Masi in the title role and Spanish tenor Julián Gayarre as Enzo. [2]
Watch movie and read libretto and translation of Enzo Grimaldo principe di Santafior, an aria for tenor from the Italian opera La Gioconda by Amilcare Ponchielli.
La Gioconda , dramma lirico in four acts. Music composed by Amilcare Ponchielli (1834–1886). Libretto by Arrigo Boito (under the pseudonym Tobia Gorrio), based upon Victor Hugo's Angelo, Tyrant of Padua (1835).
Personaggi. La Gioconda, cantatrice (soprano) Laura Adorno, genovese, moglie di (mezzosoprano) Alvise Badoero, uno dei capi dell'Inquisizione di stato (basso) La Cieca, madre della Gioconda (contralto) Enzo Grimaldo, principe genovese (tenore) Barnaba, cantastorie (baritono) Zuàne, regatante (basso) Un cantore (basso)
La Gioconda plot summary, character breakdowns, context and analysis, and performance video clips.
18 sty 2024 · Italian lyric tenor Renato Cioni was a handsome presence, although possessing a lighter voice than I would have expected for the role of the nobleman Enzo Grimaldo. That said, Cioni ardently performed the role’s showpiece aria, Cielo e mar, another one of the greatest arias of the mid-19th century.
15 lis 2021 · Richard Tucker was a leading tenor for the Metropolitan Opera for 30 years. Only two other star singers in the company’s 90‐year history—Giovanni Martinelli, the tenor, and Antonio Scotti, the baritone—lasted longer in the cruelly competitive Metropolitan arena, Martinelli for 32 seasons and Scotti for 34.
