La Gioconda
Running time: 3 hours 50 minutes ca. intermission included
FIRST ACT 50 minutes / Pause 30 minutes / SECOND ACT 37 minutes / Pause 30 minutes / THIRD and FOURTH ACT 80 minutes
The Premiere of La Gioconda on 7 June 2022 will be broadcast live on RAI Radio3.
Teatro alla Scala New Production
Teatro alla Scala Orchestra and Chorus
Chorus Treble Voices and the students of the Ballet School of the Teatro alla Scala Academy
| Conductor | Frédéric Chaslin |
| Staging | Davide Livermore |
| Sets | Giò Forma |
| Costumes | Mariana Fracasso |
| Lights | Antonio Castro |
| Video Designer | D-WOK |
| Choreography | Frédéric Olivieri |
| Chorus Master | Alberto Malazzi |
CAST |
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| La Gioconda |
Saioa Hernández (7, 11, 21 June) Irina Churilova (14, 18, 25 June) |
| Laura Adorno | Daniela Barcellona |
| Alvise Badoèro | Erwin Schrott |
| La Cieca | Anna Maria Chiuri |
| Enzo Grimaldo | Stefano La Colla |
| Barnaba | Roberto Frontali |
| Zuàne | Fabrizio Beggi |
| A singer / A pilot | Giorgio Valerio (7, 11, 21 June) / Ernesto José Morillo Hoyt (14, 18, 25 June) |
| Isèpo | Francesco Pittari |
| Barnabotto | Guillermo Esteban Bussolini (7, 11, 21 June) / Alessandro Senes (14, 18, 25 June) |
The tenor Fabio Sartori is forced by an indisposition to withdraw from this production. La Scala would like to thank Stefano la Colla, who has accepted at short notice to perform the role of Enzo Grimaldo.
Although unusual and difficult to classify, Ponchielli’s spectacular opera is always felt to be a special event by opera lovers. The libretto by Tobia Gorrio, nom de plume of Arrigo Boito, drawing on Victor Hugo’s prose, sketches a dark and mysterious Venice, theatre of passional excesses and crimes, which is perfectly mirrored by the composer’s generous and captivating melodic vein. A historical fresco with Scapigliatura overtones featuring six protagonists, one for each voice type.
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