Ponchielli - La Gioconda / Fischer, Sanjust, Wiener Staatsoper Video

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The Vienna State Opera's 1986 production of La Gioconda, Amilcare Ponchielli's only lasting success, was an increasingly rare event. The story--based on a long forgotten Victor Hugo drama--is an emotional roller coaster of high passion and self-sacrifice, but has fallen out of favor with the major international opera companies; instead, Ponchielli's contemporary Verdi and one-time pupil Puccini are today's guaranteed crowd-pullers. This is a shame. Ponchielli's score might be sumptuous to the point of occasional over-ripeness but it contains some marvelous arias, not least Enzo's "Cielo e mar." And whenever La Gioconda herself is on stage, it's hard not become enthralled by the richness of her suffering as painted by Ponchielli's lush, explosive music. Here is a woman who is given every opportunity to ensure the removal of her rival (Laura) for Enzo's affections, but who always does the decent thing, ultimately leaving herself with a stark choice between suicide and the repulsive paws of the evil Barnaba who has pursued her since Act I.

As La Gioconda, Hungarian soprano Eva Marton is utterly compelling. It's a role that places extraordinary emotional demands on the singer (Callas, not surprisingly, had a field day with it). Marton maintains total credibility. In voice, she is well matched by Placido Domingo's Enzo, who is at the virile peak of his vocal powers, rather suggesting a strength that the suggestible Enzo doesn't really possess. But perhaps the strongest aspect of Ponchielli's opera is the way in which the vocal jewels are distributed throughout the cast. Ludmilla Schemtschuk is an elegant Laura and Margarita Lilowa as La Gioconda's blind mother, La Cieca, sings an unforgettable "Voce di donna o d'angelo." And the ballet within the opera, the "Dance of the Hours," assumes its rightful place as a gleaming component of the whole work. --Piers Ford

CATEGORY: Video
DIRECTOR: Hugo Käch
THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: 01 January, 1986
MANUFACTURER: Kultur Video
MPAA RATING: NR (Not Rated)
FEATURES: Color, NTSC
TYPE: Performing Arts - Opera
MEDIA: VHS Tape
# OF MEDIA: 1
UPC: 032031000933

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Customer Reviews of Ponchielli - La Gioconda / Fischer, Sanjust, Wiener Staatsoper

Great singing, big production
The painted illusionistic sets are evocative, grand and (appropriately) a bit unreal. The singing is unformly good, if not in many cases great (especially Marton); conducting fine and lively. The costumes are an odd mixture of 16th and 19th century, again adding a rather surreal operatic touch. Altogether a grand performance of one of the most extreme grand operas.


Great opera, great singing
I can't enlarge too much more on what others have said on a postive note. Every singer in this production gives a satisfying performance with Domingo, Marton, Manuguerra, and Rydl, being particularly fine (in that order). It's a great opera video.


Muy satisfactoria 'Gioconda'
Son bien sabidas de quienes conozcan esta opera de Ponchielli las dificultades que provoca llevarla a escena con resultados de nivel debido a las multiples dificultades que encierra la partitura (son nescesarias 5 primeras figuras del canto, un numero importante de secundarios, coro adulto, coro infantil y una nutrida orquesta, ademas de 5 cambios de escena). En esta version de la Opera de Viena, las espectativas se cumplen de manera satisfactoria y el resultado final es un espectaculo de calidad indiscutible. <
>Comenzamos con La Gioconda que recrea EVA MARTON, que a una voz bella y bien controlada une un dramatismo y una identificacion con el papel totales que la convierten en una interprete ideal del personaje: eso si, mas verista que belcantista. Junto a ella, otro tanto de elogios se pueden decir sobre el Enzo Grimaldo de PLACIDO DOMINGO, pletorico de voz y siendo una vez mas el gran actor que ha sido siempre. El malvado, Barnaba, esta aqui interpretado por MATTEO MANUGUERRA, que (como Marton, en linea mas verista que belcantista) canta perfectamente su parte y construye un personaje creible. <
>Como Laura Adorno, la mezzosoprano LIOUDMILA SEMSCHUCK es menos interesante que los tres anteriores, aunque esta correcta. Lo mismo puede decirse del Alvise Boadero de KURT RYDL (quiza hubiera sido deseable un bajo mas profundo) y algo mejor que los dos anteriores La Cieca de MARGARITA LILOWA. <
>La Orquesta y el Coro titulares del teatro se muestran como unos conjuntos muy ductiles, de calidad, muy bien controlados desde el foso por un ADAM FISCHER que concierta con acierto a todo el conjunto sin mayores problemas. <
>La puesta en escena es tradicional, sencilla y agradable: algo que se agradece en los tiempos actuales (no olvidemos que estamos ante una filmacion de los ultimos 80s) <
>En resumen, destacable version de una opera que no se conoce lo suficiente y que encierra una gran belleza que merece ser desenterrada por todos los amantes del genero. No se la pierdan.

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