
01/12/1986
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.

Éva Marton
as Gioconda

Plácido Domingo
as Enzo

Ludmila Semtschuk
as Laura

Matteo Manuguerra
as Barnaba

Margarita Lilova
as Cieca

Kurt Rydl
as Alvise

Alfred Šramek
as Zuàne

Alfred Burgstaller
as A Minstrel

Jorge Pita
as Isèpo

Goran Simić
as A Pilot

Benedict Kobel
as 1st Gondolier

Peter Köves
as 2nd Gndolier

Francesc Vals
as A Monk

Ádám Fischer
as Conductor
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