Classical Composer: | Ponchielli, Amilcare |
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Lyricist: | Gorrio, Tobia |
Work: | La Gioconda |
Year Composed: | 1876 |
Instrumentation: | 2+1, 2d1, 2, 2 - 4, 2+2, 3, 1 timp, perc, hp, org, str, soli (8) chor, chld ch |
Publishers: |
Edwin F. Kalmus Ricordi |
Duration: | 00:11:00 |
Period: | Romantic |
Work Category: | Opera |
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Amilcare Ponchielli, an Italian composer of some importance in the opera-house in his own time, is probably best remembered for La Gioconda, with its libretto by Arrigo Boito, disguised under the anagram of Tobia Gorrio, first performed at La Scala, Milan, in 1876. In the second act of a complicated plot the hero Enzo, waiting on his boat for an assignation with Laura, wife of Alvise Badoero, a leader of the Inquisition, stands on deck, admiring, in Cielo e mar, Sky and sea, the peace of the night and expecting each moment to see his beloved. The pair have, in fact, been betrayed by the agent Barnaba, but will be re-united, thanks to the self-sacrifice of La Gioconda, who has also loved Enzo.The Dance of the Hours, which has its own popularity apart from the opera of which it forms a part, takes place at a party in Act III. The dance itself is in singular contrast to the tragic circumstances soon to be revealed, in a plot of some complexity.
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