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LA GIOCONDA

Amilcare Ponchielli (1934 - 1886)

Opera in four acts in Italian

Libretto: Arrigo Boito
Premièr at Teatro alla Scala, Milan – 8 April 1876

24 September 1967

Memorial Theater, Sacramento

Conductor: Giuseppe Patanè

Chorus master: Vincenzo Giannini

Stage director: Lotfi Mansouri

Designer: Eugene B. Dunkel
Costumes: Golstein & Co.
Choreographer: Thomas Andrew

La Gioconda a ballad singer LEYLA GENCER soprano

La Cieca her blind mother MAUREEN FORRESTER mezzo-soprano
Alvise Badoero one of the heads of the State Inquisitions ARA BERBERIAN bass
Laura his wife GRACE BUMBRY mezzo-soprano
Enzo Grimaldo RENATO CIONI tenor
Barnaba a spy of the Inquisition CHESTER LUDGIN baritone
Zuane a boat man ALLAN MONK bass
Isepo a public letter-writer L. D. CLEMENTS tenor
A monk CLIFFORD GRANT
A steersman RICHARD STYLES
First singer JOHN BEAUCHAMP
Second singer WILLIAN BOOTH
A voice JONATHAN HUIE – EUGENE LAWRENCE

Solo dancers

SANDRA BALESTRACCI
DAVID COLL
DIANA MARKS
JOAN DE VERE

Time: Seventeenth Century

Place: Venice

THE SACRAMENTO BEE

1967.08.20